Carries I-579 Official name pghe585-17 Design Steel girder bridge Total length 320 m Location Pittsburgh Body of water Allegheny River | Crosses Allegheny River Maintained by PennDOT Construction started 1984 Opened 1987 Bridge type Girder bridge | |
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Locale Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Similar 33rd Street Railroad Bridge, 30th Street Bridge, Senator Robert D Fleming, South Tenth Street Bri, Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge | ||
The Veterans Bridge is a steel and welded girder bridge that carries Interstate 579 over the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Completed in 1988 it cost $420 million (or $851 million in 2017 terms). It opened on November 11, 1988 complete with 107th National Guard howitzers firing ceremonously from the deck, as the last link in I-579. The bridge, 1,050 feet (320 m) in length, has a main span of 410 feet (120 m) and is 51 feet (16 m) above the water. The roadway atop the structure is seven lanes wide, with six lanes dedicated to northbound and southbound traffic (three per direction) and one lane designed for reversible High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV-2) movements.
Map of Veterans Bridge, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
The bridge is also designated "pghe585-17".
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Veterans Bridge (Pittsburgh) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA