The PPL Building (seen here in the distance) is the tallest building in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
At first glance, Friday’s groundbreaking for the American Parkway Bridge looked pretty much like every other ceremony where shivering, dark-suited community leaders poke their gold-painted shovels into some carefully piled dirt.
But this time, behind all the pomp and pageantry were more than five decades of planning, fighting, waiting and frustration.
It was 1956 when excited city leaders first proposed a direct path between downtown Allentown and Route 22, and Friday those shovel-wielding leaders celebrated the beginning of construction of a $46 million American Parkway Bridge project they say represents both the struggles of the past and the promise of the future.
It will span the Lehigh River just north of the Tilghman Street bridge and south of the Route 22 bridge.
Read more: http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-allentown-american-parkway-bridge-20121214,0,3965525.story
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Somewhere in those 50 years they lost the concept of a direct Route to Route 22. Simply misleading.