Rigolets Bridge
Description
Opened to traffic on June 9, 1930, replacing a ferry service. Served as part of US 90 throughout its existence and was also briefly part of US 11 in the late 1930's before being re-routed onto the Maestri Bridge.Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss swing bridge over the Rigolets on US 90 in New Orleans
- Location
- New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, and St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1930; replaced 2009
- Design
- Riveted, 16-panel Polygonal, Subdivided Warren through truss swing span
(3)16-panel, riveted Pennsylvania through truss spans
Concrete beam approaches - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 399.8 ft.
Total length: 3,877.9 ft. (0.7 mi.)
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.9 ft.
- Also called
- Fort Pike Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +30.17160, -89.73300 (decimal degrees)
30°10'18" N, 89°43'59" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/236813/3340956 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Rigolets
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 1,410
- Inventory number
- BH 19089 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of August 2018)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 87.7 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- August 17, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Corrected and added truss types
- August 16, 2022: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
- August 15, 2022: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- May 11, 2015: New photos from william blackwell
- August 23, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 22, 2013: New photo from Douglas Butler
- May 3, 2010: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
- May 3, 2009: New photos from Bob Davis
Sources
- Bob Davis - bobdaviscfi [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Nathan Holth
- Douglas Butler
- william blackwell
- RIGOLETS PASS BRIDGE | Massman Construction Co.
- Geoff Hubbs
- Paul Plassman
Comments
I have some pictures of the Rigolets Bridge on my trip back home from Nov 2004. I spent a lot of time on that island. My grandfather was the Baptist preacher on the island at Fort Pike Baptist Chapel.
Both pictures were taken at Fort Pike standing watching the old bridge open and close.
The bridge shown looks like the Chef Menteur bridge to me.
I am a person of interest in finding special people that
lived on highway 90 on the island known as Rigolets and grew up and attended the school's inside the city of New Orlean's. we were a bus load of kid's that caught the school bus every morning. we lived between Slidell, and The city of New Orlean's. Elementery--Sherwood Forest
jr. high was george washington jr. high. i am trying to get in contact with joseph yarbrough who was a friend that one saturday he came to my house in his boat and took me fish. please if there is anyone out there that went to school between 1967--1971 and lived on route 6, highway 90
around Fort Pike, La. Please contact me at :626-813-1039, or email me at irma91706@aol.com. i really need to get back in touch with my FRIEND's.
Thank You,
Irma Holmes
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.
This Bridge has been replaced by a new one and will be demolished by the end of 2008.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/la/orleans/rigolets/
I believe the set of four photos at the top of the page are of the Highway 90 bridge over Pearl River. Rigolets Bridge has the three steel sections followed by a long causeway before you reach land. The third section of the Pearl River bridge immediately ends on the land. Attached photo is a Google Earth Street View of the Highway 90 bridge over the Pearl River (La/Miss State Line).