Rating:
14375
{70}%
4 votes
I-280 Bridge
Photos
Iowa shore looking north
Photo taken by Nathan Morton in Sept. 07
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BH Photo #127553
Description
Planning for the bridge began in 1953, and it was finished in 1973.
Bridge Crossing Video
By Quinn Phelan
Here is a short video of my drive across the Mississippi River I-280 Bridge, southbound from Iowa into Illinois on March 3, 2009...
Facts
- Overview
- Steel through arch bridge over Mississippi River on I-280 in Davenport
- Location
- Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, and Rock Island County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1970
- Builders
- - Dravo Contracting Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Substructure)
- John F. Beasley Co. of Dallas, Texas (Erector)
- Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. of Des Moines, Iowa & Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Superstructure)
- Design
- Steel through arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 570.2 ft.
Total length: 4,194.4 ft. (0.8 mi.)
Deck width: 82.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.0 ft.
- Also called
- I-280 Mississippi River Bridge
Sergeant John F. Baker, Jr. Bridge
Baker Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.48305, -90.63712 (decimal degrees)
41°28'59" N, 90°38'14" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/697271/4595078 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Andalusia
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 25,900
- Inventory numbers
- IA 600690 (Iowa bridge number)
IL 081-0106 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 14375 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of August 2017)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 41 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- August 25, 2021: Updated by Luke: Added builder
- April 16, 2017: New photo from David Sebben
- October 30, 2013: New Street View added by Luke Harden
- February 20, 2012: Photo imported by Luke Harden
- July 18, 2011: New photos from J.R. Manning
- July 3, 2011: New Street View added by Luke Harden
- June 3, 2011: Updated by Luke Harden: Updated name
- March 3, 2009: Essay added by Quinn Phelan
- November 13, 2008: New photo from Nathan Morton
Sources
- Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Quinn Phelan - qphelan [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Luke
- J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
- Wikipedia
- David Sebben
If you're passing through the Quad Cities on I-80 with no time to poke around for historic bridges, cross the Mississippi on this interesting tied-arch bridge on I-280, instead of the ugly I-80 Fred Schwengel Bridge. It's faster too.