This innovative venture is the brainchild of Riverlife, a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating Pittsburgh’s ...

The report says 12% of bridges in an eight-county greater Pittsburgh area are rated in poor condition. That's 510 bridges out of 4,190, and they carry nearly 1.2 million vehicles a day.

The collapse of the Forbes Avenue bridge in Pittsburgh resulted from inadequate maintenance and repair by the city, federal investigators say. The collapse occurred on Jan. 28, 2022, involving a ...

Pittsburgh has a lot of bridges: 446 of them, at least by one often-cited count. When you factor in all of southwestern Pennsylvania, that's a whole lot of bridges that need to be maintained ...

As PennDOT gives more resources to maintaining NHS routes to federally mandated standards, the local state-owned roadways ...

The intended lifespan for many bridges built in this era is about 50 years, TRIP reported, but the average age of Pennsylvania bridges is about 55. In the Pittsburgh region, the average age of all ...

In 2008, Pennsylvania had more than 6,000 state-owned bridges classified as in poor condition – but since then, PennDOT has successfully repaired or replaced more than 3,000 bridges,” the ...

In January, President Biden visited Pittsburgh, Pa., hours before a bridge collapsed. He returned to that bridge for the midterms to tout his economic blueprint.

During the audit period, which extended from July 2020 through May 2023, the commonwealth spent roughly $1.2 billion to fix or replace these bridges, DeFoor said. Not all Pa. bridge inspectors ...