Rt 51

also Route 51 and Route 51 Corridor and PA 51
==Background==
* PA 51 is one of the most heavily used routes in the region. 
* Route 51 is one of the more important surface highways in Southwest Pennsylvania. It serves as the main connection between the Mon Valley and Fayette County to Pittsburgh. 
==History==
In the 1930s PA 51 become a critical conduit to routes to the South Hills. It was the original link for Beaver County into Pittsburgh.
==Links==
===Media===
* http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07014/753777-85.stm Slideshow in the P-G about blight on Route 51, a design-free mishmash of malls, strip malls, box stores, auto-service lots, beer stores, tanning salons, roadside bars and disappearing sidewalks, hardly a glass slipper contender. But when it arrives in the city from Whitehall as Saw Mill Run Boulevard, the four-mile stretch to the Liberty Tunnels is so degraded that it could be a parody of blight: A boarded-up window, weathered gray, isn't bad enough; the board is shredded, revealing a glass-block window grid with some of the blocks punched. (From January 2007)
* http://www.gribblenation.com/swparoads/51/51Intro.html has PA 51 - A History and Finding Old PA 51 - Ohio State Line to West End Circle
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