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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
On the telecast today, when they zoomed over there, I noticed people strolling along that bridge in the background — no vehicular traffic.
That's the Roberto Clemente (Sixth Street) Bridge, one of the Three Sisters Bridges over the Allegheny River. The other two are the Andy Warhol (Seventh Street) Bridge and the Rachel Carson (Ninth Street) Bridge. They were all built in the 1920s and still look beautiful today.
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If you go to the Wikipedia article on PNC Park, you can download the jumbo version of the image that I uploaded above. You can zoom in like I did and notice the tents on the bridge.
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That photo is from 2016 — no tents today — but the Wikipedia article on the Roberto Clemente Bridge says "It is closed to vehicular traffic on Pirates' and Steelers' game days, providing a pedestrian route to PNC Park and Heinz Field."
Apparently, vendors are occasionally allowed to set up along the bridge, catering to baseball fans enjoying their scenic walk to the ballpark. How cool is that?
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I have no idea where the Pinstripers park their players, but the Mets use a team hotel just across the bridge, and Keith Hernandez (and others, I assume) just walk to and from the park.
Keith rhapsodizes about this, every year. (Unless there's a furry convention in town, but that's a different story.)