[Tenacious 1]

The Point is, among other things, where the three rivers meet, where the French built Ft. Duquense which led to the French and Indian War and where Lewis & Clark launched their flatboats for their famous expedition into the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. So it has been a site of traffic congestion for a long, long time.

LOL. You are suggesting that Lewis & Clark created the first traffic jam in Pittsburgh? It's been a traffic mess ever since.

[Vigilanteman]

Oh, hello no. Long before that. Blame it on the French and Indians.

The French wanted to contain westward expansion of the colonies and keep their near monopoly on the lucrative trade with the inland tribes. The British aligned Indians didn't see white immigration as that much of a threat and wanted access to more trade goods to counter the growing dominance of French aligned tribes.

There is a modern day lesson here somewhere.