With new bridge built, Albert Gallatin Memorial Bridge is set to fall.
Just two weeks after a new Point Marion Bridge opened 15 feet away, a demolition company scheduled Monday morning to destroy the old, 810-foot-long bridge, which carried traffic along Route 88 across the Monongahela River between Fayette and Greene counties.
The rusty, retired structure, named after the treasury secretary under President Jefferson, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the second-oldest cantilever-truss bridge in the state.
It remained in use until the Oct. 22 dedication of its successor, but PennDOT rated it “structurally deficient” and considered it one of the most unsafe bridges in Pennsylvania.
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