Crosses Monongahela River Opened 6 July 2013 Clearance below 61 m Bridge type Girder bridge | Design Girder bridge Total length 921 m Location Luzerne Township Body of water Monongahela River | |
Carries 4 lanes of Pennsylvania Route 43 Locale Luzerne Township and Centerville Official name Ronald C. "Smokey" Bakewell Bridge Similar Quemahoning Tunnel, Allegheny River Turnpike, Laurel Hill Tunnel, Tuscarora Mountain Tunnel, Monongahela River | ||
The Mon–Fayette Expressway Bridge, officially the Ronald C. "Smokey" Bakewell Bridge is a high-level girder bridge that carries vehicular traffic across the Monongahela River between Luzerne Township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania and Centerville in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
The bridge was opened on July 6, 2012 and completed the southern section of Pennsylvania Route 43, more commonly known as the Mon–Fayette Expressway. Upon completion, motorists can now travel via freeway for 58 miles (93 km) between Morgantown, West Virginia and the Pittsburgh suburb of Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania. The cost of the bridge project was $96 million. The total length of the bridge is 3,022 feet; 51,000 cubic yards of concrete were used to create the structure. In 2013, the Pennsylvania Legislature voted to name the bridge for Ronald C. "Smokey" Bakewell, a local serviceman killed during the Vietnam War.