City Park Lagoon Bridge No. 1

Photo

Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY 2.0

Photo taken by Infrogmation of New Orleans in December 2012

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

Overview: Concrete arch bridge over City Park Lagoon on Dreyfous Drive in New Orleans
Location: New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1924
Design: Arch
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 35.1 ft.
Total length: 71.8 ft.
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +29.98557, -90.09452 (decimal degrees)
29°59'08" N, 90°05'40" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/780328/3320740 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: New Orleans East
Inventory number: BH 19067 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 04/2015): Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 73.4 (out of 100)

City Park Lagoon Bridge No. 1

Posted November 4, 2015, by Jay Schmitt (Jaybird70460 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

I used to love going over this bridge as a kid. You'd get a bit of a rush over the hump.