After a sinkhole swallowed a Port Authority bus in Pittsburgh in October 2019, you’d think it would be a long time before surreal images of a Pittsburgh bus would appear across the Internet.  Yet just a shade over two years later, such images can be found all over the Internet again.  This time, the Fern Hollow Bridge that carried Forbes Avenue over a ravine in Frick Park collapsed shortly before rush hour last Friday, January 28.  Thankfully, no one was killed, as there were several cars on the bridge when it fell.  Following three days of planning, yesterday afternoon, the bus was removed from the bottom of the ravine in an operation that took about 20 minutes to complete.  If you haven’t seen the photos of cranes holding the bus up in midair, you have to see them to believe it.

I do not have any photos of either the bus involved in this incident or the 2019 sinkhole incident, but I do have photos of the same type of bus on a similar route.  The Port Authority’s articulated buses are currently all New Flyer D60LFRs and New Flyer XD60s.  The former model was involved in Friday’s bridge collapse and is pictured here.

For more photos of the Port Authority of Allegheny County’s New Flyer DE60LFR Buses, please click here.