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the river at Six Mile Island from Butler Street to the eastern portion of Sharpsburg, is narrow (36 feet over all) and is of light construction. It is so important that it will some day need to be rebuilt of ample width and strength for main thoroughfare use. At its southern end it connects (1) with the Butler Street thoroughfare, of which it forms the northeastern extension, and (2) with a proposed cross-town line (Section 25 following) up the Haights Run Valley to East Liberty. On the north it connects directly with Guyasuta and Aspinwall, with most of the country in O'Hara township, and with the Freeport Road leading to Claremont, Montrose, Oakmont and all points up the Allegheny River. This Freeport Road is destined to become the main thoroughfare up the Allegheny because the precipitous character of the south bank of the river, and the consequent almost total absence of land suited to residential or commercial development between Highland Park and Verona, make the direct extension of Butler Street, as a riverside thoroughfare, both expensive and impracticable.

Diagram No 4. Forbes Street -- Fifth Avenue connection at Soho

11. Forbes Street - Fifth Avenue Connection at Soho. -- At Soho the connection between the Forbes Street artery and Fifth Avenue -- the principal thoroughfare to Bellefield and all points to the east thereof -- is most simply accomplished by splitting the Forbes Street artery at Seneca Street into two levels, the upper, on the

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Original document: Frederick Law Olmsted, 1910