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New Dauphin Island Bridge
Description
This bridge is structurally of a modern design but is noteworthy for its total length. The bridge is similar in design to the Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge over the West Passage of Narraganset Bay in Rhode Island.
Facts
- Overview
- Concrete segmental box girder bridge over Gulf Intracoastal Waterway on Alabama State Route 193 (AL Coastal Connection)
- Location
- Dauphin Island, Mobile County, Alabama
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1982 to replace previous bridge destroyed by hurricane
- Builder
- - FIGG Engineering Group of Tallahassee, Florida
- Design
- Concrete segmental box girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 400.0 ft.
Total length: 17,814.0 ft. (3.4 mi.)
Deck width: 39.0 ft.
- Also called
- Seth Gordon Persons Memorial Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +30.29633, -88.13244 (decimal degrees)
30°17'47" N, 88°07'57" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/391101/3352165 (zone/easting/northing)
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 5,550
- Inventory numbers
- AL 12835 (Alabama bridge number)
BH 89306 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of December 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 68.1 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- May 17, 2020: New photos from Nick Boppel
Sources
- Nick Boppel - nickboppel01 [at] gmail [dot] com