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Location: Roberto Clemente Bridge, Pittsburgh, PA
Operator of Vehicle: Port Authority of Allegheny County
Date of Photo: October 21, 2020

I’m a huge baseball fan and have aspirations of making it to every Major League stadium at some point.  With a visit to Pittsburgh last month that included taking in a game at PNC Park, I’ve now visited 13 of 30 (as well as some stadiums that are no longer in use).  There are many reasons to like the Pirates’ home stadium, one of which is the experience of walking across the Roberto Clemente Bridge from Downtown Pittsburgh to the North Shore where the stadium is located.  Prior to games, the bridge is closed to vehicular traffic and is exclusively used by pedestrians.  At the north end of the bridge, immediately behind where I was standing to take this photo, is one of the entrances to PNC Park and a statue of Roberto Clemente, the Pirates’ hall of fame outfielder for whom the bridge is named after.  

Currently, no bus routes use the Roberto Clemente Bridge.  However, in the fall of 2020 when this photo was taken, the nearby Rachel Carson Bridge was closed for rehabilitation so some bus routes were rerouted over the Clemente Bridge.  In addition, the pandemic meant that the baseball games that were played that year were played in empty stadiums, so the scene outside PNC Park that year often looked like this, with little traffic of any type crossing the bridge, whether that be cars, buses, or pedestrians.

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