South Tenth Street Bridge

South Tenth Street Bridge
Official name	Philip Murray Bridge
Carries	4 lanes of roadway
Crosses	Monongahela River
Locale	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Design	Suspension bridge
Total length	1,275 feet
Longest span	725 feet
Clearance below	50.3 feet
Opened	1933
Coordinates	40°25′57.06″N 79°59′21.17″W

South Tenth Street Bridge, most often called the Tenth Street Bridge, but officially dubbed the Philip Murray Bridge, is a suspension bridge spanning the Monongahela River in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The bridge was renamed on Labor Day 2007 for Philip Murray, the first president of the United Steelworkers of America and a giant of the 20th century American labor movement.

The bridge connects South Tenth Street on the South Side to Second Avenue and the Armstrong Tunnel under the Bluff. A staircase leads from the northern terminus of the bridge up to the campus of Duquesne University on the Bluff.

View of bridge and Duquesne University from the South

In popular culture

• The bridge is featured in the game Fallout 3's second add-on package, The Pitt, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic Pittsburgh. The bridge is covered in land mines and vehicles, and must be crossed to enter the main city.

• On June 12, 2006 Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was thrown from his motorcycle, struck by a car that was making a Pittsburgh Left at the bridge's north portal.

External links

• South Tenth Street Bridge at Structurae
• entry at pghbridges.com
• entry at BridgeMeister.com
• Nate Guidry (2007). Philip Murray Bridge Dedication: story by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved September 4, 2007.

See also

• List of crossings of the Monongahela River