Facts
- Overview
- Deck truss bridge over Wabash River on Eastbound US 52 in Lafayette
- Location
- Tippecanoe County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1936; rehabilitated 1984
- Design
- Deck truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 149.9 ft.
Total length: 982.7 ft.
Deck width: 32.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.45139, -86.89417 (decimal degrees)
40°27'05" N, 86°53'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- INNBI 019010 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 17112 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection
- Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
- 7,562
Comments
Wabash River Bridge
The east bound bridge, which dates to the 1930's, is now scheduled for replacement in 2016. There seems to some sort of paranoia about the resemblance between this bridge and the I-35W bridge in Minnesota.
Wabash River Bridge
Now a paired bridge over the Wabash River, US 52 (Sagamore Parkway) crosses from the west bluffs to the built up roadway on the east flood plain.
East bound bridge GPS: 40.451515,-86.894093
West bound bridge GPS: 40.451707,-86.894077
1 both bridges (south-right) is the eastbound bridge
2 deck truss abutments on the west bluff
3 trusses setting on the piers
4 truss span
5 under the deck
6 truss spans on the east shore
