Rating:
2 votes
Wakota Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Steel through arch bridge over Mississippi River & Up Rr on I-494
- Location
- Washington County, Minnesota, and Dakota County, Minnesota
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1959; rehabilitated 1988. Dismanted in 2006 to make way for replacement Eastbound Span.
- Design
- Steel through arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 420.6 ft.
Total length: 1,869.8 ft.
Deck width: 54.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +44.88333, -93.01500 (decimal degrees)
44°52'60" N, 93°00'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/498815/4969990 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Saint Paul East
- Inventory numbers
- MN 5993 (Minnesota bridge number)
BH 38227 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 06/2019)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 39.1 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1998)
- 82,000
Update Log
- January 28, 2016: New photo from Luke
- January 8, 2011: New Street View added by Jason Smith
- November 25, 2008: Added by Kim Harvey
Sources
- Kim Harvey
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- John Weeks Highways, Byways, And Bridge Photography - Information on the 1959 Wakota Bridge
- John Weeks Highways, Byways, And Bridge Photography - Information on the new Wakota Bridge
- Wikipedia
- Luke
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This bridge will be reincarnated in a few years, just in time for its inspection in June of 2019.