Pittsburgh says it has more bridges (446) than anywhere else
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The US city of Pittsburgh claims to have more bridges than any other place in the world - and don't try telling locals otherwise.
There are 446 of them, to be precise. The best known of those bridges span the two rivers, the Monongahela and Allegheny, which flow through Pennsylvania and meet in the old steel city to form the Ohio River.
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I've passed through Pittsburgh several times at night on Amtrak trains. Each bridge is lit up amazingly with strands of light, spanning the three rivers--it's an incredibly beautiful sight.
Surely is !
Capitol limited I assume?
@@PC10.8 Yep! Capitol Limited, from Washington to Chicago.
PerthTowne awesome! Yeah usually comes through our area at night so I don’t get to see it but when I go to other places like Cumberland I try to go out and get it
@@PC10.8 I"m in New Jersey, so when I head west on the train, I have to go through Chicago. I can either go to New York City and take the Lakeshore Limited or head down to Washington to catch the Capitol Limited. I just prefer the layover in Washington, and I like going through Cumberland, Harper's Ferry, Pittsburgh. I just like the route better.
There is a book I own called "The Book of Cities" by Philip Dodd and Ben Donald. In its coverage of Pittsburgh, they quoted Brendan Gill of The New Yorker who said: "If Pittsburgh were situated somewhere in the heart of Europe, tourists would eagerly journey hundreds of miles out of their way to visit it."
After seeing Pittsburgh's beauty and charm this past summer when my family went on vacation there, I can understand how Gill arrived at such a feeling. IMO, its picturesque quality matches that of actual European cities (Prague and Cologne come to mind).
My wife and I went to Pittsburgh once and can't wait to go back. It's truly an underrated city. The steel tycoons built a beautiful city!
Pittsburgh is an amazing place. I've had the pleasure of stopping in a few times. It's a hidden gem and based on all the hate in these comments, good, it will stay that way.
We Pittsburghers invite everyone to visit our beautiful city - not great weather but wonderful friendly people, great food and wonderful scenery! Proud to be a 'Burgher!
You mean yinzer?
@@lesykkonecky1547 what's a yinzer?
@@smakkacowtherealone a person from pittsburgh
I was a kid in Pitt and we went to the point to fish. During the winter when the steel mills were still operating they dumped into the Monongahela River and it didn't freeze as a result. So the Allegheny would be frozen up to 'the point' where it met the Monongahela and then the Ohio was not frozen past that point. I also remember the entire sky would be orange during some days from the steel mills. That was certainly a steel town. Almost all my relatives worked there. Chipped ham, gumbands, and the Steelers.
You must remember the "Bridge to Nowhere" the home of many keg parties in the 60s!
@@47AndyT No I was a small child in the 60's.
i find it one of the most amazing city,s in the U.S.A. with a diverse culture and breath taking views of the city with the most bridges , and the 3 rivers that make this city so unique , going back and viewing it on u- tube brings back unforgettable memories from my truck driving years in the years of 2000 to 2005 my final year and in to my retirement , these last 5 years gave me grate satisfaction , to have traveled the U.S.A , as a CANADIAN citizen and delivering pigeon feed to 27 states of the union , that makes up the U.S.a !!
john jansen how is pittsburgh diverse? It only has 78780 and 12,000 hispanics and the number of other backgrounds is in the hundreds. Pittsburgh is a predominately white city.
@@JohnDoe-yq5bd Pittsburgh still has about 25% black poputation tho. It just doesn't have a very large Hispanic population but that's changing.
I live south of Pittsburgh, in Bridgeville so named as you cannot enter or exit the city without using a bridge.
I am from West Virginia and I have never been to Pennsylvania. I lived especially close to Pittsburgh but have never been. I really want to go to Pittsburgh. My friends and I are planning to go this summer and I am so excited.
If you can, I highly recommend entering the city from the Fort Pitt tunnel. The city is totally obscured as you approach it so when you pop out of the tunnel and you're in the city, it's amazing
So, how did it go?
What's with the hateful comments? I've never visited Pittsburgh, but judging from this video alone, Pittsburgh seems one of the most picturesque cities in the US. Makes me think there's some sorry of bias either towards the city (maybe they're good at sports?) or the US as a whole.
Old comment but I just had to say that you are correct, it's because of the sports teams. Besides City of Bridges and the Steel City, Pittsburgh is also known as the City of Champions due to its successful sports programs and people dislike it for that reason, which is silly. There will also be negative comments about the city due to plain ignorance and outdated notions of what the city was during the industrial revolution. We like that it's a secret.
I live in Pittsburgh and I love all the bridges here. It's an amazing city
Tyler McCandless its not, its a small, old, rusty, depressing sad city. When you have a city that is 5th largest in the country on the others side you kind of lose the ability to publicly like your own city. Now start rooting for the phils
John Doe Nobody likes shitty Philly
John Doe Pittsburgh is a beautiful city with all the lights and rivers and bridges
@IS RA
well then I have something seriously wrong with me
Slight correction. The Allegheny River actually starts in Colesburg Pennsylvania. It then flows north into New York State before turning south and flowing down to Pittsburgh.
The "Pixburgh" accent on full display here.
I saw a documentary about the bridges in Pittsburg on PBS station.I've always been fascinated with the architectural engineering of bridges in general,...even thou I have a phobia of heights..lol
The Allegheny River starts outside Gold, PA.
Hamburg Germany has over 2000 bridges (born and raised near hamburg and lived 5 years in in Pittsburgh)
The 446 is only in the city proper, because Pittsburgh is a collection of burgs, boroughs, and small cities all jammed together. If you count the entire metroplex, it dwarfs that number 2000. The estimate is misleading at 446.
I’m a native suburban Pittsburgher myself, and while I certainly **do** enjoy the views of the bridges just as any other Pittsburgher, I honestly wouldn’t mind a little paintwork to fix those old rusty spots on the bridges in order to encourage further tourism to the city.
PITTSBURGH SECOND CROATIAN CITY-BY CROAT POPULATION...1st IS CRO-CAPITOL ZAGREB,1.1 MILION
CRO- VENDETTA JOY DIVISION AUS. ummmmm what???
The guy said " People don't build bridges , Governments do "?!?!?!?!?
WTF ?!?!?!
WRONG IN EVERY WAY ! People literally build bridges and when politicians legislate money for revamping or building new bridges , that's THE PEOPLE'S MONEY !!! SMFH
The Allegheny River doe NOT start in "Up state New York"! It starts in Pennsylvania, flows up into the state of New York then turns and flows south towards Pittsburgh! Check the facts!
glkarns I believe you are correct
I was going to make the comment you did. Ya you have to check the facts first.
That is definitely true according to the maps. ✅
You are correct
I’m a native yinzer and the Allegheny doesn’t start in New York it actually starts in Pennsylvania
Guy at the beginning pronounces "Monongahela" incorrectly. Accuracy, please!
Mo-non-gah-HEY-la! Yeah, he bugged me too. I grew up in the Mon Valley.
yeah i did not like hearin that
John Cigna the late, great KDKA radio legend, once said painting Pittsburgh's bridges different colors would make the bridges picture worthy especially the golden triangle bridges when viewed from Mt. Washington. I really like that idea and it would make great post cards.
hell naw!!! tha fucc it better stay yellow. they voted last year on diff colors and thank god they decided to keep them yellow. never ever change the color ever. thas what tha burgh is all about blacc and yellow
Ah when when we had almost limitless access to inexpensive steel what we could build! Glad we did it when we had it! Beautiful!
Glad you enjoyed it. Pittsburgh is still cleaning up the God awful filth USS left when they largely pulled out of here 40 years ago. We're doing great without it and all its ensuing environmental problems. How about the next city to be filthed up for cheap steel be yours?
A wonderful story about the people who work on the bridges and still going today!!!!
445 now
Born and raised in Pittsburgh Pa . I am 61 years old and I can assure you that Pittsburgh is always improving every thing about the City . We take pride in our Towns and people !
I grew up in a town outside of Pittsburgh called “Ambridge,” named after the American Bridge Company and built to house its workers.
American Bridge built many structures all over the world... Its a story worth looking into. Maybe you should research it and make a YT video about the town and company.
@@KlodFatherI might
i was expecting this video to debunk that pixburgh has the most bridges but it doesn't, so what's up with the title? had to rely on some nice jag in the comments.
Prayers for all. God Bless.
My dad worked in the Alcoa building, can't wait to move back.
Allegheny starts above coudersport then goes into New York then back into pa
Union guy saying "work hard" had me laughing.
@B Babbich Maintenance Manager at a union plant. And geeze, there's lazy people in all walks of work, but unions have their stereotypes.
The allegheny starts in pa flows into ny then back into pa
Thats were i live
I miss home!
On less
I went to school and lived in that building at 0:24
That’s amazing!
So how the hell does a river flow from down south up to Pittsburgh? Sorry guy but I'm pretty sure ur wrong
Pittsburgh is a beautiful place and city there are beautiful rivers and bridges so please everyone please stop calling a place I call home nasty or depressing it’s not and if you’ve been there you would know it’s beautiful 😍 so agin how would you like it if I called somewhere you live and where raised and love nasty or disgusting, like we have the Steelers which almost won the championship, and the Penguins which won the Stanley Cup , and the pirates which I love 💗
I just don’t understand how there is 400+ bridges in the city. How is that even possible? Looking at a map I can’t even find more than 50
Thats because they are counting every single bridge. Even the small 50 foot ones that cross a creek
@@mark-uh8un - And because Pittsburgh the city proper is so small, that number 446 is very misleading. Other cities have absorbed the adjacent communities and the number would swell to a couple thousand very quickly if that was the case.
Didn't know that Pittsburgh could talk (according to the title)
Learn to use English and report back. 100% valid use of the language there.
Pittsburgh born & raised. And, i'm bi-lingual....English AND "Pittsburghese."😀
Hamburg has around 2500 bridges, even New York City and Amsterdam have more than Pittsburgh.
Please don't tell it to the people of Pittsburgh, but London has 850 Bridges, Amsterdam has 1200 and Hamburg has 2486 bridges. But at least Pittsburgh has more bridges than Venice, which has "only" 410.
No, DO tell them!! They need to know what lying losers they are!!
Where did you find those figures?
Kate McNamara From the website of one of Hamburg's universities. wp.ub.hsu-hh.de/11706/hatten-sies-gewusst-hamburg-hat-mehr-brucken-als-venedig-amsterdam-und-london-zusammen/
Kate McNamara
P.S. see also the Guiness Book of World Records 2015 books.google.de/books?id=rBd4BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT187&lpg=PT187&dq=hamburg+bridges+guinness+book&source=bl&ots=9UI4XF5sqk&sig=NJeq_ai3PyVaxIrTt0oyYWir-q0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=icJ7VKXlCIGXOPb0gcAF&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=hamburg%20bridges%20guinness%20book&f=false
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What kind of city counts it's bridges
One with 446 of them, apparently. Where I grew up, the city used to count (estimate, actually) the number of flowers in the spring because it styles itself the "City of Gardens". Every city has some unique "feature" they like to focus attention on.
fair enough
The best one on earth
Any city that hopes to maintain its infrastructure.
Uhhh any city in the industrialized world that has to maintain its roads, DOT stats, insurance ratings etc....? Maybe one of the dumbest comments I've seen, anywhere, ever, on the internet. Congrats, your a genius.
Well Hamburg has 2.300 bridges... :D
AkimboAliTheR those are tiny walking bridges that may only be a few meters/yards. They are talking about vehicle accessible bridges.
+Bobby Actually a good portion of them are full on bridges. Hamburg has a lot of water and actually the second most poulated river island in the world (for instance). Its stupid to go around proclaiming to be the city of bridges (compensating for being one of the worst places in the western world btw) and number 1 when by the regular definition of a bridge (which includes pedestrian bridges) you are not first at all probably not even remotely.
MysticHero fair enough. But don't day Pittsburgh is one of the worst places in the western part of the world. Pittsburgh is one of the most livable cities in the US and is in an absolute beautiful location.
It has to be driveable and you can walk across it
@@XMysticHerox Pittsburgh isn't one of the "worst places in the western world" you moron.
Pittsburgh isnt thaaat bad, but no, it hastn more bridges than anywhere else, not by a long shot xD
The only other city that's close is Venice.
@@lisabehe4546 lol, Hamburg and Amsterdam have more by a looooooooooooong shot alone and maybe other cities too... Americans really know only tourist-hotspots and their own country...
@@FOertel And Europeans know absolutely nothing about America outside of the tourist hot spots, so what's your point?
@@FOertel - Only because Pittsburgh the city proper is so small. If you look at Allegheny county, Pittsburgh is little with only a small portion of the population of the county. 1.7 million vs approx 250k. Most of the metroplex is outside the city... And the bridges number in the thousands. Those cities you mentioned have a much bigger legal footprint. You are not comparing apples to apples. I cannot confirm it but an engineer friend from PenDot said that Allegheny county has way north of 5k bridges. 1.7 million people. That should give you an idea of what you are dealing with.
The old timer says it right ! Monoga-heeeela
So that's where all the trolls come from !
hahaaaa that is a GOLDEN comment lol.
Yes... There are some serious troll looking scoundrel's under the bridges sometimes LOL And they have been breeding in the sewers.
Amsterdam has 1,200 bridges. So claiming you have the most bridges of any city in the world is laughable. But understandable for Americans because you think you are the best the biggest etc etc etc. The world ends at your borders 😂🤣🙃🥲😂😅
Hey on gonna find who asked I'll be right back
We are right because we are Americans and we have the bombs - Dennis Leary 😎👍
while your at it paint the bridges dark green, yellow stand out too much.
Its kind of the cities colors Tail
Yellow is the color of the steel industry.
Tail finz they look better when they stand out
It's called the Golden Triangle and black and gold are the team colors of the Steelers,Pirates,Penguins . It's also called The City of Champions for itsSuper Bowl,Stanley Cup and World Seiries wins, We love the Burgh! Where do you live?
My profile picture is the Pittsburgh city flag. We like yellow, leave us alone. 😁