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|bridge_name = Boston Bridge
|image       = Boston Bridge 2014.jpg
|image_size  = 300px
|caption     =Boston Bridge in September&nbsp;2014.
|carries= [[Pennsylvania Route 48|PA 48]]
|crosses= [[Youghiogheny River]]
|locale= [[Versailles, Pennsylvania|Versailles]] and [[Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Elizabeth Township]], [[Pennsylvania]]
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|design= [[cantilever bridge]]
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|length= 1181 f
|width= 30 ft
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|open= October&nbsp;13, 1932<ref>{{cite news |title=New Boston Bridge Opened to Traffic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29570035/the-pittsburgh-press/ |access-date=November 12, 2021 |work=[[The Pittsburgh Press]] |date=October 14, 1932 |page=4|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref>
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The '''Boston Bridge''' is a structure that crosses the [[Youghiogheny River]] between [[Versailles, Pennsylvania|Versailles]] and [[Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Elizabeth Township]], [[Pennsylvania]]. Its name is derived from [[Boston|the Massachusetts city]] only indirectly: the bridge is named for the Boston neighborhood of Elizabeth Township, which in turn was named for the New England city.

The bridge, which opened on October&nbsp;13, 1932, carries [[Pennsylvania Route 48]] on two relatively narrow lanes. Many of its features were carefully preserved during a 1989 rehabilitation, down to its original pedestrian railings. Designed entirely for vehicular traffic, the structure changed the future of Elizabeth Township; the lack of streetcar tracks led to the abandonment of a line that served the then-rural community's small industrial settlements, while the newfound ease of access for motorists to the area's manufacturing regions opened up the township to [[suburbanization]].

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== External links ==
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*[http://www.pghbridges.com/mckeesport/0599-4462/boston.htm PGH Bridges]
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|place            = [[Youghiogheny River]]
|bridge           = Boston Bridge
|bridge signs     = [[Image:PA-48.svg|20px]] [[Pennsylvania Route 48|PA 48]]
|downstream         = [[P&LE Liberty Boro Bridge]]
|downstream signs   = [[CSX]] [[Keystone Subdivision]]
|upstream       = [[Sutersville Bridge]]
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[[Category:Bridges in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Bridges completed in 1931]]
[[Category:Road bridges in Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Bridges over the Youghiogheny River]]
[[Category:Cantilever bridges in the United States]]
[[Category:1931 establishments in Pennsylvania]]