Belle Vernon Bridge

The Belle Vernon Bridge, also called the Speers Bridge or Speers/Belle Vernon Bridge, carries Interstate 70 across the Monongahela River from Speers east to Rostraver Township in the state of Pennsylvania.

Around 1951 it replaced an earlier low-level bridge, which connected Pennsylvania Route 88 via State Street with Pennsylvania Route 906 at the I-70 east ramps, just to the south of the current bridge.

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

[1] Trolley services were disrupted when a girder for the new bridge fell, severing the wires in 1951.

[2] Several people were injured by flying debris when one of the supports for the previous bridge was demolished by blasting in 1955.