The city has more than 800 public staircases — the most of any city in the United States, according to a recent City of Pittsburgh assessment. These 45,000 individual steps connect streets, they connect neighborhoods, and they are the primary route for many to get from one point to another through our hilly landscape.
The bridge carrying Forbes Avenue over Fern Hollow Creek gave way an hour before sunrise, sending a Port Authority bus and several other vehicles into the ravine below.