Carries US 119 Design girder bridge Total length 245 m Location Connellsville Body of water Youghiogheny River | Crosses Youghiogheny River Opened 1952 Width 15 m Bridge type Girder bridge | |
Locale Connellsville, Pennsylvania Similar Ohiopyle Low Bridge, Smithton Low‑Level Bridge, Banning Railroad Bridge, Smithton High‑Level Bridge, Jerome Street Bridge | ||
The Memorial Bridge is a structure that crosses the Youghiogheny River, connecting the eastern and western shores of Connellsville, Pennsylvania.
The bridge was constructed in 1952 as part of a new routing a U.S. Route 119 (US 119) on a four-lane highway around the city center. In 1982, the structure was rehabilitated as part of a decade long widening of the route through Fayette County, that included the creation of a freeway bypass in Uniontown, 12 miles (19 km) to the south. In 2009-10, the road was again reconstructed, this time to accommodate improved pedestrial pathways. The walkways were widened as part of a future plan to connect the Great Allegheny Passage, the Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh trail that runs just past the western bridge approach, to an extension of the small Coal & Coke Trail, which currently runs from Mt. Pleasant to Scottdale, Pennsylvania.