On today’s episode of The Confluence: Allegheny County has surpassed 3,000 deaths due to COVID-19, but case rates have fallen; while the region is approaching pre-pandemic employment levels, analysis from the Allegheny Conference on Community Development suggests it may be a while until certain sectors have fully recovered; and we speak with the executive director of Industrial Arts Workshop of Hazelwood, which is giving new life to locks removed from the Clemente Bridge.
Two decades’ worth of love locks on Pittsburgh’s Roberto Clemente Bridge will not be love lost, but rather removed and donated for an art project when the bridge shuts down for planned rehab work on Valentine’s Day. The closure is part of a larger rehab of the Sister Bridges across