PENNSYLVANIA, September 29 - PRINTER'S NO. 384

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

396

Session of

2021

INTRODUCED BY BARTOLOTTA, MARCH 11, 2021

REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 11, 2021

AN ACT

Designating the bridge, identified as Bridge Key 35000, on that

portion of State Route 2040 in Bentleyville Borough,

Washington County, as the Mrs. Madeline Finney Memorial

Bridge.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Mrs. Madeline Finney Memorial Bridge.

(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as

follows:

(1) In 1966, Mrs. Madeline (Madge) Finney decided

something must be done about a small bridge, built in 1908 to

span Pigeon Creek, in her town of Bentleyville, Pennsylvania,

that was simply too small for what was then "modern traffic."

(2) Mrs. Finney recognized how unsafe it was for the

more than 60 children that crossed the bridge twice daily to

go to and from school, including six of her own children.

(3) Mrs. Finney spearheaded the four-year campaign to

expand the bridge.

(4) In a letter to then State Senator William J. Lane,

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