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DELAWARE RIVER PORT AUTH. v. THORNBURGH

508 Pa. 11 (1985)

493 A.2d 1351

The DELAWARE RIVER PORT AUTHORITY, Appellant, v. Richard L. THORNBURGH, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation and Thomas Larson, Secretary of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided June 4, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Donald Jamieson, Jeffrey Cooper, Philadelphia, for appellant.

Michael J. McCaney, Jr., Deputy Atty. General, Harrisburg, for appellees.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.

OPINION

McDERMOTT, Justice.

Spanning the Delaware River, from Philadelphia to Pennsauken, a concinnity of steel, stone and river, is the Betsy Ross Bridge, named in honor of a placid seamstress who, story tells, stitched the Stars and Stripes. A limited access highway to the bridge was proposed and named in honor of Casimir Pulaski, a great general of the Revolution, who came from Poland, that free men might build such like bridges. The Pulaski Highway,...

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