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Lewis and Clark Viaduct

Wyandotte County, Kansas, and Jackson County, Missouri

Photos 

North side

Photo taken by James Baughn

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BH Photo #103280

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Facts 

Overview
Deck truss bridge over Kansas River on I-70 Westbound in Kansas City
Location
Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas, and Jackson County, Missouri
Status
Open to traffic
Future prospects
A new Kansas River Bridge is planed for I-70 to the West of the structure, leaving the future plans for this bridge to become just an offramp to Downtown KCK and Fairfax District from I-70. The New Bridge Project is scheduled to start sometime during or after 2016.
History
Opened Nov. 12, 1962; rehabilitated 1984
Design
Main spans: Two riveted, 10-panel Warren deck trusses with verticals
Northbound offramp main span: One riveted, 10-panel Warren deck truss with verticals
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 304.0 ft.
Total length: 3,048.1 ft. (0.6 mi.)
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Also called
Intercity Viaduct (original name)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.11335, -94.61524   (decimal degrees)
39°06'48" N, 94°36'55" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/360353/4330596 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Kansas City
Inventory numbers
KDOT 0105-B0030 (Kansas Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
BH 18700 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 06/2015)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 54.3 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2014)
21,750

Categories 

Built 1962 (169)
Built during 1960s (1,728)
Deck truss (1,495)
Functionally obsolete (7,945)
Have street view (21,885)
Interstate 70 (33)
Jackson County, Missouri (237)
Kansas (2,690)
Kansas City, Kansas (40)
Kansas River (31)
Missouri (5,912)
Navigable waterway (1,998)
 Open (36,394)
Owned by state (13,572)
Riveted (1,871)
Span length 250-500 feet (1,078)
State line crossing (727)
Total length over 2500 feet (789)
Truss (29,372)
US 24 (46)
Warren deck truss (534)
Warren truss (5,741)
Wyandotte County, Kansas (48)

Update Log 

  • November 9, 2013: Updated by Chris Knight: Oops Direction error
  • March 9, 2010: Updated by Robert Elder: Added Street View link
  • July 3, 2006: Posted new photos

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Sources 

  • Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Lewis and Clark Viaduct
Posted January 27, 2008, by Local

I was out at the bridge today, 1/27/2008 at 4:30PM.

The photo is heading westbound on the north bridge, near the east end.