The Monaca-Rochester Bridge has been renamed to the Rochester-Monaca Bridge.
The name of the bridge is decided each year by the winner of the Rochester and Monaca football game.
The bridge is a continuous cantilever truss that opened in 1986. Like the nearby Vanport Bridge, the top chord is flat and the bottom chord curves downward to form points over intermediate piers. The bridge replaced an unusual three-tower cantilever similar to the Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge. That bridge, built in 1930, replaced a suspension bridge similar to the 1905 Newell Bridge, located just over the Ohio/West Virginia Border. The Rochester-Monaca Bridge is one of the few major modern truss bridges in Pennsylvania.
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