PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Two years ago today, all eyes turned to Pittsburgh when the Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed into a ravine in Frick Park.
The bridge fell more than 100 feet below and sent several vehicles, including a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus, into the park below.
In the time since the bridge has been rebuilt and reopened.
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Since that fateful day in 2022, we’ve learned more about what led to the collapse of the bridge – most recently, thousands of documents released from the National Transportation Board’s investigation revealing a failure by multiple institutions to maintain bridges along with a lack of action and a lack of allocating the necessary resources to maintain them.