Aerial view of the Brady Street Interchange Construction

1953/1954

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Aerial view of the Brady Street Interchange Construction

Title
Aerial view of the Brady Street Interchange Construction
Creator
Don Bindyke
Identifier
MSP285.B010.F31.I03
Source Identifier
MSP285.B010.F31.I03
Description
The first contract for preparing the plans for the new Penn-Lincoln Parkway was given to Michael Baker, Jr. of Pittsburgh in November 1943. The estimated cost of the project at the time was $20 million. Cutting into hillsides to avoid Second Avenue (road at right center) and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks (left of Second Avenue), the new Parkway would eventually connect with the new Fort Pitt Boulevard. The Parkway helped eliminate heavy through traffic on Oakland’s business and residential streets. The entire 27-mile Penn-Lincoln Parkway (Interstate 376), constructed under the Federal Highway Act of 1956, would connect Pittsburgh with the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the east and the Greater Pittsburgh Airport to the west.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Penn-Lincoln Parkway.
Parkway East.
Boulevard of the Allies (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Second Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Aerial views--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Highway construction--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Source
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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