Facts
- Overview
- Through truss swing bridge over Rigolets Pass on US 90 in New Orleans
- Location
- New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Opened to traffic June 9, 1930
- Design
- Swing Through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 399.8 ft.
Total length: 3,877.9 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +30.16583, -89.73806 (decimal degrees)
30°09'57" N, 89°44'17" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/236310/3340328 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Rigolets
- Inventory number
- BH 19089 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 05/2004)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 6.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 3,600
Comments
Rigolets Bridge
The old U.S. HWY 90 brideg is now gone. The truss spans were put on barges and taken away and the concrete wes put around Fort Pike for protection from tidel surages doing damage to the fort structure.
Rigolets Bridge
This Bridge has been replaced by a new one and will be demolished by the end of 2008.