The Fort Pitt Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel under Mount Washington in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It connects the West End region on the southwest side to the South Shore neighborhood on the northeast side. The adjoining Fort Pitt Bridge on the northeast end connects to Downtown Pittsburgh. The tunnel carries traffic on Interstate 376 (I-376), U.S. Route 22, US 30, and US 19 Truck. The structure comprises two bores, each with two lanes of traffic. The inbound tunnel flows onto the top deck of the double-deck Fort Pitt Bridge, opposite traffic from the lower deck using the outbound tunnel. To accommodate the bridge, the northeast portals of the parallel tunnels are vertically staggered by 30 feet. The tunnel opened in September 1960, a year after the Fort Pitt Bridge.
Northeast Portal of Fort Pitt Tunnel
Mount Washington, Pittsburgh (mountain)
Mount Washington is a hill in Pittsburgh, on the southern banks of the Monongahela River and Ohio River.
Mount Washington, Pittsburgh (mountain)
A view of Mount Washington from Bigbee Street
P. & L.E. Ry. Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad station and the Monongahela Incline on Mount Washington, c. 1905
Daytime view of the Pittsburgh city from Grandview Avenue