The Highland Park Bridge is a truss bridge that carries vehicular traffic across the Allegheny River between the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Highland Park and the suburb of Aspinwall.
It replaced a much narrower 1902 streetcar bridge that was ill-equipped to handle heavy commuter traffic, as part of the process of suburbanization in the hills northeast of the city.
[1] Construction of the bridge began on November 6, 1937 and was completed in June 1939.
[2] The bridge cost $2.5 million to construct and was opened on June 22, 1939.
[3] Two workers were killed during the construction on October 14, 1938 when a 68-ton crane fell from the bridge.