Pittsburgh, the City of Bridges, has a vast infrastructure that needs constant maintenance. I interviewed Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald to learn how it keeps up. My Chicago series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNdX0Dm-J8Y Subscribe to TDC: null Thanks to: Rich Fitzgerald https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/our-pittsburgher-of-the-year-rich-fitzgerald/ Rebecca Kiernan https://www.phipps.conservatory.org/green-innovation/for-the-world/nature-of-place-symposium/nature-of-place-symposium-2020/session-4/rebecca-kiernan-msppm-leed-green-associate The Heinz History Center https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/ Meadowcroft Rock Shelter https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/visit/meadowcroft/ Music score: ‘Moments in Time’ - Tristan Barton ‘Outrun’ - WeAreTheGood ‘Element- Instrumental’ - Frank Bentley ‘Runways’ - Stanley Gurvich ‘Descending Chamber’ - Out of Flux ‘Sunday Best’ - Steven Beddall ‘Midnight Sun’ - Beneath the Mountain ‘Ripples’ - Tamuz Dekel ‘Self Love’ - Steven Beddall Sources: The only city in America with an entrance [NY Times] https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/03/arts/architecture-view-a-tempered-skyline-strengthens-a-city-of-steel.html The rise and fall of Pittsburgh steel https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/193c7822ffbf42e1bc3be7a463f69054 Rich Fitzgerald: Pittsburgher of the Year https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/our-pittsburgher-of-the-year-rich-fitzgerald/pic/188135/ US Steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Steel Tunnels of Pittsburgh https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/underground-pittsburgh-explore-our-city-of-tunnels/ Old Pittsburgh photos https://www.steelcactus.com/OLDPGH1.html Longest automobile-carrying Lenticular bridge https://structurae.net/en/structures/bridges/lenticular-bridges NTSB Fern Hollow Bridge collapse video report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-VnWB4fiFk Three sisters bridges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(Pittsburgh) Steel, Man’s Servant - 1938 https://www.c-span.org/video/?450280-1/steel-mans-servant-1938 Pittsburgh pop chart https://population.us/pa/pittsburgh/ Pittsburgh stock exchange https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_AIOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Vm0DAAAAIBAJ&dq=pittsburgh%20stock%20exchange&pg=4753%2C2995935 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (wiki) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_Jobs_Act House vote https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021369 Senate vote https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00314.htm#state First $132 in Pitt bridge funding https://www.spcregion.org/2024/01/19/tribune-review-3-major-pittsburgh-bridges-set-to-get-132m-in-renovations/ Aurora: Pioneering the Future of Autonomous Driving https://www.pghtech.org/news-and-publications/Aurora_2 Phipps Center for Sustainable Landscapes https://www.phipps.conservatory.org/green-innovation/at-phipps/center-for-sustainable-landscapes-greenest-building-museum-garden-in-the-world Carnegie Mellon program rankings https://www.cmu.edu/ambassadors/december-2022/report-ranking.html UPMC Medical Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pittsburgh_Medical_Center Allegheny County population https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/pa/allegheny-county-population Allegheny County analytics https://alleghenyanalytics.azurewebsites.net/ This is the only city in America with an entrance: Pittsburgh, the City of Bridges. Nestled in the rugged terrain of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh lies at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, giving birth to the mighty Ohio. Three sisters Roberto Clemente, artist Andy Warhol, and conservationist Rachel Carson. Today, a total of 446 bridges exist in the city of Pittsburgh City of Pittsburgh’s Fern Hollow bridge County Executive, Rich Fitzgerald Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Marcellus Shale - the largest natural gas find The University of Pittsburgh Oakland, Schenley Park Phipps Conservatory, is home to the Center for Sustainable Landscapes–the first and only building to meet seven of the highest green certifications Carnegie Mellon University ranked number one in engineering, robotics, and computer science Robotics, AI, software Pitt medical technology, the biotechnology, the life sciences autonomous vehicle sector Aurora driverless trucking product on a route between Houston and Dallas ‘Robotics Row’ Googles, the Facebooks, the Microsofts Great Allegheny Passage C&O Canal trail in Maryland along the Potomac and can take you all the way into Washington DC drop in air pollution electric transit buses Pittsburgh International airport Lochs and dams, as the water goes over it’s going to turn a turbine. It’s going to generate electricity for our lights and for our buildings–whether it’s the jail, whether it's our nursing homes, whether it’s our county office building - the courthouse - all of the various things that we operate. Net zero parks