Liberty Bridge #3
by Joyce Wasser
Title
Liberty Bridge #3
Artist
Joyce Wasser
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Liberty Bridge stretches across the Monongahela to downtown Pittsburgh. This steel cantilever bridge with concrete pillars is 2663 feet long. it was erected from1926-28 by engineer George S. Richardson and the Allegheny County Department of Public Works.
The Liberty Tubes (Tunnels) had been opened for four years by the time the bridge was completed. With the opening of the Liberty Bridge and the resolution of the Liberty Tubes' ventilation problems, the South Hills boroughs and townships were finally given a direct auto route to and from downtown.
In 1930-31, the construction of Saw Mill Run Blvd and the West End Bridge also sought to improve travel around the 5-mile-long, 400 foot "great wall" of Mount Washington. Original plans were to include a full interchange with Saw Mill Run Blvd at the southern portal of the Liberty Tubes. A version of this plan was finally completed in 1999.
At the northern landing of the Liberty Bridge splits into outer ramps which lead to connections with the Blvd of the Allies and the center lanes which slope down toward Forbes Av and Crosstown Blvd
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June 26th, 2020
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