The Herron Avenue Bridge reopened Monday after structural concerns forced officials to abruptly close it earlier this year.

The bridge, a connection point between the Lower Lawrenceville and Polish Hill neighborhoods, was closed in May in the “interest of public safety,” Zack Workman, an engineer with the city’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, said at the time.

The closure was indefinite following an inspection of the bridge, revealing that its structure was “deficient,” Pittsburgh Regional Transit had said in a detour notice.

But after “successful completion of emergency repair work,” the 754-foot bridge, built in 1888, is now open to all traffic, including both lanes and the western sidewalk, the city said in a statement this week.

Repairs were completed in the past month

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