PITTSBURGH — As far back as 2014, the state of Pennsylvania found enough problems with the Fern Hollow Bridge over Frick Park that it said inspections should be launched every year instead of every 24 months, a state official told the Post-Gazette on Monday.
Four years later, Pittsburgh officials found that a rusting and detached X-shaped bracing on the bridge had become a “safety concern” and decided to remove it, a document obtained by the Post-Gazette shows, leaving steel cables as support in their place — a decision at least one expert said was questionable.
The city also turned up other needed repairs, but they were not viewed as “as imminent hazards” and were pushed off to future years but do not appear to have been done.
