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| {{about|the bridge in Versailles, Pennsylvania|bridges in Boston|List of bridges in Boston}} | | {{Deprecated}} |
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| {{Infobox Bridge
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| |bridge_name = Boston Bridge
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| |image = Boston Bridge 2014.jpg
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| |image_size = 300px
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| |caption =Boston Bridge in September 2014.
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| |carries= {{jct|state=PA|PA|48}}
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| |crosses= [[Youghiogheny River]]
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| |locale= [[Versailles, Pennsylvania|Versailles]] and [[Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Elizabeth Township]], [[Pennsylvania]]
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| |design= [[cantilever bridge]]
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| |mainspan=
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| |length= 1181 f
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| |width= 30 ft
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| |open= October 13, 1932<ref>{{cite news |title=New Boston Bridge Opened to Traffic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29570035/the-pittsburgh-press/ |access-date=November 12, 2021 |work=[[The Pittsburgh Press]] |date=October 14, 1932 |page=4|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref>
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| The '''Boston Bridge''' is a structure that crosses the [[Youghiogheny River]] between [[Versailles, Pennsylvania|Versailles]] and [[Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Elizabeth Township]], [[Pennsylvania]]. Its name is derived from [[Boston|the Massachusetts city]] only indirectly: the bridge is named for the Boston neighborhood of Elizabeth Township, which in turn was named for the New England city.
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| The bridge, which opened on October 13, 1932, carries [[Pennsylvania Route 48]] on two relatively narrow lanes. Many of its features were carefully preserved during a 1989 rehabilitation, down to its original pedestrian railings. Designed entirely for vehicular traffic, the structure changed the future of Elizabeth Township; the lack of streetcar tracks led to the abandonment of a line that served the then-rural community's small industrial settlements, while the newfound ease of access for motorists to the area's manufacturing regions opened up the township to [[suburbanization]].
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| ==References==
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| == External links ==
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| *{{commons category-inline}}
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| *[http://www.pghbridges.com/mckeesport/0599-4462/boston.htm PGH Bridges]
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| |structure = Bridges
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| |place = [[Youghiogheny River]]
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| |bridge = Boston Bridge
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| |bridge signs = [[Image:PA-48.svg|20px]] [[Pennsylvania Route 48|PA 48]]
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| |downstream = [[P&LE Liberty Boro Bridge]]
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| |downstream signs = [[CSX]] [[Keystone Subdivision]]
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| |upstream = [[Sutersville Bridge]]
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| |upstream signs = }}
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| {{coord|40.3128|-79.8283|region:US-PA_type:landmark|display=title}}
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| {{Portal bar|Engineering|Transport|Pennsylvania}}
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| [[Category:Bridges in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania]]
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| [[Category:Bridges completed in 1931]]
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| [[Category:Road bridges in Pennsylvania]]
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| [[Category:Bridges over the Youghiogheny River]]
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| [[Category:Cantilever bridges in the United States]]
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| [[Category:1931 establishments in Pennsylvania]]
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