Yellow Belt

The Yellow Belt is the third "belt" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Pittsburgh/Allegheny County Belt System and the second of two belts to make a complete circumference of the city (the first being the Blue Belt), over a distance of convert|80|mi|km though the northern, eastern, and southern sectors of the county.cite map |publisher = County of Allegheny |title = Allegheny County Pennsylvania Information Map |accessdate = 2008] For several miles in the southern part of the county, it is the outermost of the belts. (The Orange Belt has a gap where it used to enter into Washington County, Pennsylvania and the Red Belt runs exclusively in the north of the city.) The belt was originally set up in the 1940s though the current route was finalized in 1972.

The Yellow Belt stretches from its southernmost point in South Park, Pennsylvania, north and west to the border of Moon, Pennsylvania, north and east to Hampton, Pennsylvania, and east as far as the border to Plum, Pennsylvania before returning to the start. It crosses or follows Pennsylvania routes PA 50, PA 51, PA 60, PA 65, PA 88, PA 121, PA 130, PA 148, PA 380, PA 791, and PA 910. It also crosses or follows US 19 and US 22 and also briefly follows I-79 from Neville Island to Sewickley, making it the only belt to be signed over an Interstate Highway. [cite web |title=Pittsburgh Belt System |url=http://www.pahighways.com/other/pghbeltsystem.html |accessdate=7-02-2008] It crosses the Neville Island Bridge and the Mansfield Bridge. It runs past the Allegheny County Airport.

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* [http://www.pahighways.com/other/pghbeltsystem.html Information on PAHighways.com]