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B.B. Comer Bridge

Jackson County, Alabama
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Photo taken by Sheila Fossett

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Overview
Cantilevered through truss bridge over Tennessee River on AL 35 at Scottsboro
Location
Jackson County, Alabama
Status
Open to traffic
Future prospects
replacement bridge being built; bridge is scheduled for demolition.
History
Built 1930
Design
Cantilevered Warren through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 310.1 ft.
Total length: 2,143.1 ft. (0.4 mi.)
Deck width: 19.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.1 ft.
Also called
Scottsboro Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+34.64103, -85.97722   (decimal degrees)
34°38'28" N, 85°58'38" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/593737/3833711 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Hollywood
Inventory numbers
AL 784 (Alabama bridge number)
BH 10134 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 04/2011)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 10.2 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
8,150

Categories 

Alabama (498)
Built 1930 (1,238)
Built during 1930s (8,551)
Cantilevered (242)
Cantilevered truss (222)
Doomed (805)
Have street view (9,896)
Jackson County, Alabama (12)
Navigable waterway (1,448)
Open (28,314)
 Owned by state (9,808)
Span length 250-500 feet (863)
Structurally deficient (16,680)
TRUSS Award 2013 (14)
Tennessee River (24)
Through truss (9,210)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,216)
Truss (23,574)
Warren through truss (927)
Warren truss (3,961)

Update Log 

  • March 17, 2013: New photos from Calvin Sneed
  • July 10, 2010: Updated by Calvin Sneed: Change Street View orientation: View should always be from shore to shore, not from middle of bridge
  • April 22, 2010: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
  • April 22, 2010: New photo from James Legg
  • July 6, 2009: Updated by Kim Harvey: alternate name, future prospects
  • October 2, 2006: Posted photos from Sheila Fossett

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B.B. Comer Bridge
Posted April 8, 2013, by Andy Peters (anpete [at] yahoo [dot] com)

The Chattanooga Times Free Press published an article today, citing Bridgehunter, about the preservation efforts to save the B.B. Comer Bridge.

B.B. Comer Bridge
Posted March 17, 2013, by Calvin Sneed (us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Updated; new photos..

How are preservation efforts going?

B.B. Comer Bridge
Posted March 8, 2013, by Caroline Lynch Minor (carolinelynchminor [at] gmail [dot] com)

If you are interested in helping save the last remaining memorial toll bridge in Alabama, please join our effort on Facebook at Friends of the B. B. Comer Bridge! Thank you!

The following photos include a view from the bridge, at sunset, by Caroline Lynch Minor, a 1930's postcard of the B. B. Comer Bridge, a photo from the M. H. Lynch Family photos of Corrine Lynch and Hazel Alspaugh, 14 year old Sarah Campbell at the Reopening, releasing the toll in 1936 from the family photos of Gary West, and a 1970's photo of the bridge taken by Hugh Williams. You may view these and many more on our group page.

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B.B. Comer Bridge
Posted March 8, 2013, by Caroline Lynch Minor (carolinelynchminor [at] gmail [dot] com)

If you are interested in helping save the last remaining memorial toll bridge in Alabama, please join our effort on Facebook at Friends of the B. B. Comer Bridge! Thank you!

The following photos include a view from the bridge, at sunset, by Caroline Lynch Minor, a 1930's postcard of the B. B. Comer Bridge, a photo from the M. H. Lynch Family photos of Corrine Lynch and Hazel Alspaugh, 14 year old Sarah Campbell at the Reopening, releasing the toll in 1936 from the family photos of Gary West, and a 1970's photo of the bridge taken by Hugh Williams. You may view these and many more on our group page.

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B.B. Comer Bridge
Posted April 5, 2012, by Ben Tate (benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

There is a movement to save this bridge from demolition. Here's a link to a Facebook group dedicated to preserving this bridge.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/123231444445454/

Scottsboro Bridge
Posted May 4, 2011, by RKPace (ramonapace [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Recently took these photos of BB Comer Bridge

https://picasaweb.google.com/ramonapace/JacksonCountyApril2011#5594789325414477234

Scottsboro Bridge
Posted September 12, 2007, by Dennis Lambert (dennylambert [at] aol [dot] com)

This bridge is known as the B. B. Comer bridge and is scheduled by the Alabama Department of Transportation for replacement. Construction on the new bridge, which is similar to that of the newer structure built in the 1980s and slightly upriver from it, is to begin soon (around 2008). The old bridge originally carried two-way traffic and now carries only two-lanes of eastbound traffic of Alabama Highway 35 while the newer bridge carries the two-lanes of westbound traffic.

Dennis Lambert

Bridgeport, Alabama