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Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald will be joined by U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle, state Senator Jim Brewster, state Rep. Bill Kortz, Allegheny County Council Member Bob Macey and other federal, state, county and local officials for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the William D. Mansfield Memorial Bridge.
The ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday (Oct. 28) at the Maple Avenue ramp in Dravosburg, and the public is invited, a spokeswoman said.
Due to the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the on-ramp will close at 10:30 a.m. and is expected to reopen by 12 noon.
Owned by Allegheny County, the 1,900-foot bridge across the Monongahela opened in 1951 and connects Dravosburg with the city and Glassport. According to state Department of Transportation statistics, about 17,000 vehicles use the road leading to the Mansfield Bridge daily.
The bridge is named for former McKeesport Daily News publisher, Allegheny County commissioner and state senator William D. Mansfield, who died in 1952.
The Mansfield Bridge was reconstructed as part of a $34 million project done in conjunction with PennDOT and the Federal Highway Administration. The general contractor was Joseph B. Fay Company of Tarentum.
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