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We Don’t Have The Most Bridges, But We Have Some Of The Worst

We Don’t Have The Most Bridges, But We Have Some Of The Worst

City Cast Pittsburgh

February 2, 202215m 19s

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Show Notes

As the City of Bridges, we’re also going to be a city of bridge failures. The Fern Hollow collapse last week is just the latest in an unfortunate history of calamities that have accompanied the Steel City's rise to transportation prominence. 

Senior producer Megan Harris talks to historian and author Mark Houser about our past and what we can glean from the federal database keeping track of it all.

Check out his wonderful book “MultiStories: 55 Antique Skyscrapers & the Business Tycoons Who Built Them,” and listen to his TedX talk here.

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