[2][a] A Great Depression-era public works bond was provided to fund the creation of a new auto-centric four-lane highway bridge.

A petition signed by 5,000 people made the Allegheny County commissioners reconsider the plan.

[9][10] After the city renamed Jerome Street which approached the bridge after incumbent Republican Mayor George Lysle, they proposed that the Youghiogheny crossing receive the same eponym.

However, the Franklin Roosevelt administration contended that public works dollars could not be used to memorialize living officeholders.

As a result, the Jerome Street designation was chosen, and it remains in place today, although it is sometimes referred to as the Lysle Boulevard Bridge.