Bridges
See also: Pittsburgh bridgesPittsburgh is a city of bridges: over 2,000 bridges dot the landscape of Allegheny County . The southern entrance to Downtown is through a tunnel and then over the Fort Pitt Bridge.
The Panhandle Bridge, a former railroad bridge, carries the Port Authority's Blue and Red (formerly 42S/47L) subway lines across the Monongahela River. Other notable bridges are Fort Duquesne Bridge, the Liberty Bridge and The Three Sisters.
A comprehensive survey of regional bridges is at Bridges and Tunnels of Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, PA.
Read more about this topic: Transportation In Pittsburgh
Famous quotes containing the word bridges:
“We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics—back to the jungle.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“Awake! the land is scattered with light, and see,
Uncanopied sleep is flying from field and tree:”
—Robert Bridges (1844–1930)
“I will not let thee go.
I hold thee by too many bands:
Thou sayest farewell, and lo!
I have thee by the hands,
And will not let thee go.”
—Robert Bridges (1844–1930)