New Madison-Milton Bridge
Description
The bridge slide was completed April 10, 2014. The bridge reopened to traffic April 17, 2014.Facts
- Overview
- Warren through truss bridge - modern
- Location
- Milton, Trimble County, Kentucky, and Jefferson County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Opened to traffic on April 17, 2014 after being slid onto its permanent piers a week prior.
- Design
- Warren through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.72602, -85.37204 (decimal degrees)
38°43'34" N, 85°22'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/641513/4287631 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Madison East
- Inventory number
- BH 49970 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 9, 2017: New photo from Mike Daffron
- August 28, 2016: New photos from Steve Conro
- July 6, 2014: Updated by Brent Tindall: Added year built
- April 18, 2014: Updated by Brent Tindall: Bridge is now open
- April 11, 2014: Updated by Brent Tindall: Added carries "US Highway 421"
- March 28, 2014: Updated by Ed Hollowell: Updated description for construction progress.
- March 11, 2014: Updated by J.P.: Bridge closed due to bearing shifting and making bridge unstable.
- October 14, 2013: New photos from J.P.
- November 1, 2011: Added by James McCray
Related Bridges
- Madison-Milton Bridge (Predecessor)
Sources
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Ed Hollowell - erhollowell [at] aol [dot] com
- Brent Tindall - bizzat219 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Andrew Raker
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Mike Daffron
Comments
All I can say is they don't build them like they used to! And these sorts of problems could have been avoided had they rehabilitated the existing bridge... particularly if they had done a rehab as part of a project to build a one-way couplet of bridges, which would provide redundancy... allowing one bridge to carry two-way traffic if an emergency cropped up with the other bridge.
Bridge has been closed due to a bearing shifting and making the bridge unstable.
http://www.wdrb.com/story/24938542/milton-madison-bridge-eme...
The old bridge trusses came down in Summer 2013. The new bridge is open on temporary piers with strict load limits. After the old trusses were down the piers were renovated and modified for the new bridge. The schedule calls for a 7 day closure while the new trusses are slid over on to the renovated piers which should happen sometime in March 2014.
Just when is the new bridge going to be slid on the permanent foundation?
Yeah, you'd almost think that no one in the world still even knew how to manufacture new truss bridges for a use this significant in this day and age, much less having one actually constructed and BUILT. Nice to see, but restoration or rehabilitation of the original structure and perhaps a relief bridge to the side is always far better than tearing down an old truss and putting up a modern one.
The new bridge is pretty, but I'll agree it doesn't quite do the old one justice. You must admit, though, they could've done a lot worse. At least they're trying to keep the steel through-truss tradition alive, albeit in a more modern form.
Well the world may not end in 2012, but it will witness the end of the Madison-Milton Bridge. Enjoy it while you can, folks, because in March the bridge will be imploded and the
"prefab" bridge will be in its place.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ky/trimble/new-madison-milton/
The new Madison-Milton Bridge is scheduled to open on April 17 at 11:59 PM.