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== Infrastructure == === Transportation === {{stack|[[File:2022-09-02 16 15 56 View north along U.S. Route 202 (Dekalb Street) just north of Ford Street in Bridgeport, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|right|U.S. Route 202 northbound in Bridgeport]]}} As of 2010 there were {{convert|13.05|mi}} of public roads in Bridgeport, of which {{convert|3.78|mi}} were maintained by [[Pennsylvania Department of Transportation]] (PennDOT) and {{convert|9.27|mi}} were maintained by the borough.<ref name=PennDOTmap>{{cite web|url=https://gis.penndot.gov/BPR_pdf_files/Maps/Type5/46402.pdf|title=Bridgeport Borough map|publisher=PennDOT|access-date=March 10, 2023}}</ref> Main roads serving Bridgeport are [[U.S. Route 202 in Pennsylvania|U.S. Route 202]], which passes north-south, and [[Pennsylvania Route 23]], which traverses east-west. US 202 follows Dekalb Street northbound and Dekalb Pike southbound, while PA 23 follows Fourth Street most of its route through the borough. [[SEPTA]]'s [[Norristown High Speed Line]], which runs between the [[Norristown Transportation Center]] and the [[69th Street Transportation Center]], serves Bridgeport at the [[Bridgeport station (SEPTA)|Bridgeport station]] and the [[DeKalb Street station]]. SEPTA operates the [[SEPTA Route 99|Route 99]] bus through Bridgeport, which provides service to the Norristown Transportation Center, [[King of Prussia, Pennsylvania|King of Prussia]], and [[Phoenixville, Pennsylvania|Phoenixville]].<ref name=septamap>{{cite map|title=SEPTA Official Transit & Street Map Suburban|publisher=SEPTA|url=https://www5.septa.org/wp-content/uploads/travel/map-suburban-transit-street.pdf|access-date=May 2, 2016}}</ref> The [[Bridgeport Bridge (Bridgeport, Pennsylvania)|Bridgeport Bridge]] is a [[Historic American Engineering Record]]-documented [[Philadelphia & Western Railway]] bridge spanning the [[Schuylkill River]] west of DeKalb Street. It is a single-track curving structure that was built in 1912. The structure, including trestle approaches and spans over the river, has been believed to be "perhaps the longest bridge on an American interurban railroad". The bridge currently carries SEPTA's Norristown High Speed Line.<ref name=haerBB>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/pa3745/ |title=Philadelphia & Western Railway, Bridgeport Bridge, Spanning Schulykill River, west of DeKalb Street, Bridgeport, Montgomery County, PA |publisher=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref>
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