Andy Warhol Bridge

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Andy Warhol Bridge
From north bank of the Allegheny, looking SW, downtown Pittsburgh in background, Sixth Street Bridge at right. Shows main plate girder (bearing compressive forces) and sidewalk support
Official name	Andy Warhol Bridge
Carries	Seventh Street
Longest span	442 ft (xxx m)
Total length	884 ft spans (269.4 m) (main and 2 221 side spans) 1061 ft with approaches (323 m)
Width	38 ft roadway (formerly 2 vehicle, 2 tramway tracks, now 2 wide vehicle lanes) 10ft sidewalks (outside the compressive plate girder) or total 62 ft
Vertical clearance	above 83.5ft towers
Clearance below	deck is 40.1 ft above Emsworth Dam normal pool level (710 ft above sea level)
Opening date	June 17, 1926

Andy Warhol Bridge, also known as the Seventh Street Bridge, spans the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is the only bridge in the United States named for a visual artist.

Named for the artist Andy Warhol, a Pittsburgh native, it is one of three parallel bridges called The Three Sisters, the others being the Roberto Clemente Bridge and the Rachel Carson Bridge. The Three Sisters are self-anchored suspension bridges and are historically significant because they are the only trio of nearly identical bridges—as well as the first self-anchored suspension spans—built in the United States.

The bridge was renamed for Warhol on March 18, 2005, as part of the tenth anniversary celebration for the Andy Warhol Museum. The museum is nearby at 117 Sandusky Street, a street which leads to the bridge from the north side of the river.