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These photos were taken from the http://www.dot.state.pa.us/penndot/Districts/district4.nsf/gallery4.htm?readform website.
A map showing where the bridge once was.
A beautiful, three span camelback Pratt through truss, likely built in the 1920s or 1930s.
Preparations for demolition and reconstruction of ugly slab.
The bridge looks like a dream in this photo... in about two seconds it was.
Wow those explosions really didn't damage the bridge much... if the bridge is in that good of a condition, maybe it should not have been demolished in the first place.
The bridge fell down... but didn't fall apart. I doubt the new bridge would hold together this well.
Wow, this really enhances the surrounding environment, doesn't it. No, it makes it look like an expressway is passing through.
What an unsightly scar on the landscape!
A map showing where the bridge once was.
How many spans is this bridge? How breathtakingly long is it? More than the three shown here...
The bridge is longer than the four shown here...
Seven Spans!!! This is an amazingly long bridge, and should have been preserved. Note that this photo shows the ugly new slab, also. The old bridge could have been left standing no problem. Based on the condition of the bridge, I bet this bridge could have been a pedestrian bridge, with no repair work, for decades to come. The demolition of such a long bridge not in the way of the replacement is a tragedy.
A beautiful portal.
Yucky, ugly concrete slabs.
Notice how this bridge is identical to the Great Bend bridge, although the two truss bridges looked very different?
Wow. That's an ugly one. Its almost like they try to make them ugly.
Leaving the historic bridge would have helped, because it would have provided people something pretty to look at as the crossed on the abhorrent new bridge.
Will they leave it standing for pedestrians and bridge enthusiasts?
Nope. You are not in Ontario, you are in Pennsylvania. Had this bridge been in Ontario, it would have been restored for vehicular traffic. If more lanes on the road were needed, a second bridge would have been built next to the old one, forming a one-way couplet.
