Photos
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Driving across Photos taken by Bill Burmaster |
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View from a distance |
Facts
- Overview
- Cantilevered through truss bridge over the Illinois River on IL 178 near Utica in La Salle
- Location
- La Salle County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to two-lane traffic
- History
- Built 1962
- Design
- Cantilevered through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 377.8 ft.
Total length: 1,157.8 ft.
Deck width: 29.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.32972, -89.01083 (decimal degrees)
41°19'47" N, 89°00'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- IL 050-0088 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15420 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 06/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 61.4 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 3,950
Comments
I remember this bridge being built at the age of 8. I wold go with my grandfather to the Utica quarry on the south Utica side by the river and look up watching the construction workers. I also remember the swing bridge it replaced. I liked getting stuck in traffic having to wait for the barges to go by till the bridge swung back for traffic to proceed. I don't think my grandfather liked getting stuck though.
This bridge replaced a swing bridge that had been there since my Mother and Aunt were kids. I remember when this bridge was constructed. I was about 5 years old at the time. It was a site to see when we would drive over the old swing bridge seeing this high monster being constructed. After its completion you could look down on the north side and see what was left of the old road.