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The Belle Vernon Bridge, also called the Speers Bridge or Speers/Belle Vernon Bridge, carries
Interstate 70 Interstate 70 (I-70) is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States that runs from Interstate 15, I-15 near Cove Fort, Utah, to Interstate 695 (Maryland), I-695 and Maryland Route 570 (MD 570) in Woodlawn, Baltimo ...
across the
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from Speers east to Rostraver Township in the state of
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. Around 1951 it replaced an earlier low-level bridge, which connected
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via State Street with Pennsylvania Route 906 at the I-70 east ramps, just to the south of the current bridge. The old bridge carried Legislative Route 118 and Pennsylvania Route 71 until those were moved to the new bridge when it opened.


History

The new bridge was authorized by President Truman on 22 June 1946.


Incidents

Trolley services were disrupted when a girder for the new bridge fell, severing the wires in 1951. Several people were injured by flying debris when one of the supports for the previous bridge was demolished by blasting in 1955.


See also

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List of crossings of the Monongahela River This is a complete list of current bridges and other crossings of the Monongahela River starting from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the river helps to form the headwaters of the Ohio River, and ending in Fairmont, West Virginia, where the West ...


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Photos of the old and new bridges
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