Statement from Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey Regarding Charles Anderson Bridge
PITTSBURGH — Mayor Ed Gainey released the following statement regarding the Charles Anderson Bridge
"The $6 million in the 2022 capital budget for the Charles Anderson Bridge was a projection by the previous administration as to when state and federal funding could become available for construction work on the Charles Anderson Bridge to potentially start. This was a projection and not an allocation. The City’s Capital Budget is only adopted for a single year. As the annual budgets over the next five years in the Capital Improvement Plan are adopted the phasing and amounts are refined as project statuses change. There was never $6 million allocated for Charles Anderson Bridge for this year. Further major infrastructure projects are reliant on TIP (Transportation Improvement Program) approval and funding via the Southwestern PA Commission (TIP-200-Report-January-2023.pdf (spcregion.org) (https://bit.ly/SPCTIP0123)) - which as of January 2023 has moved those projects into funding starting in 2027, with an estimated construction bid opening date of September 2025. We are in the process of trying to expedite that funding as we both repair the bridge and plan the full rehabilitation of the project.
