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CBS News
04-08-2025
- Automotive
- CBS News
Inspection work coming to the Roberto Clemente Bridge for the next two weeks
The inspection parade of Pittsburgh's sister bridges moves on as the Roberto Clemente Bridge will be closing for two weeks starting Monday morning. The bridge will be closed for routine inspection work, following the recent closure and inspection of the nearby Andy Warhol Bridge. The Warhol Bridge reopened to traffic ahead of schedule on Friday after two weeks of intense inspections. The report on the inspections isn't expected to be ready for a month. "If there's any issues that are critical, they let us know right away so we can get those addressed, and they found no issues with the bridge," said Allegheny County Public Works Director Stephen Shanley. With the Warhol Bridge inspection in the rearview mirror, eyes now turn to the Clemente Bridge. "They'll be pulling hatches off the roadway and on the curbside and doing the inspection of the entire structure," Shanley said. Like the Warhol Bridge, the hatch plates have a lot of bolts and iron workers have been hired to expedite the the process of opening those hatches so that inspectors can put a ladder down in the hatches and look around for any deficiencies. The inspection work takes two weeks because of the large number of plates. "There are a total of 432 plates," Shanley said. "We have 216 on the roadway side and 216 on the sidewalk side." The plates on the sidewalk side have six bolts each for a total of 1,296 bolts. The plates on the roadway side have an additional bolt for a total of 1,512 bolts. That's 2,808 bolts that have to be removed for the inspectors and then replaced, so the bridge will be closed through Friday this week and again next Monday through Friday. The bridge will be open for this weekend's Pirates-Reds series before closing again next Monday morning.
CBS News
21-07-2025
- Automotive
- CBS News
Andy Warhol Bridge undergoing inspection work for the next two weeks
Inspection work is going to be taking place on the Andy Warhol Bridge in Pittsburgh for the next two weeks. In a city that's so dependent on bridges, when one gets shut down, it gets everyone's attention. The Andy Warhol (Seventh Street) Bridge was recently closed for Picklesburgh, but this time, it's going to be closed for a structural checkup. "There is no problem," said Allegheny County Public Works director Stephen Shanley. "We're performing a routine national bridge inspection on the structure." Despite undergoing a major renovation that just wrapped up a few years ago, inspections are still required and the construction of Pittsburgh's "sister bridges" makes that process challenging because the inspection has to be done through hatch plates. "There's 439 of these hatch plates the have to remove," Shanley said. "They're all bolted down and they have to remove all these bolts." Each of the hatch plates have eight bolts, which makes for a total of 3,512 bolts that need removed to reveal the lower girders and then need put back into place. "What you see up top is what they're looking at down below, inside these hatches," Shanley said. Crews will be working all this week through Friday, reopen or the weekend, and then shut it all down again next week. Shanley says it's the safest way to get the inspection done and with the Roberto Clemente and Rachel Carson bridges right next door, the detour alternatives are easy. The Carson bridge was inspected earlier this summer, but the Clemente Bridge shutdown is yet to come. The good news is that since both bridges were just rehabilitated and they didn't find anything during the Carson Bridge inspection, they don't expect to find any problems on the Warhol or Clemente bridges, either.
