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Broadway Bridge

Jackson County, Missouri, and Clay County, Missouri
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View from Right Descending Bank (Jackson County)

Photo taken by Mark Frazier October 2007

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Overview
Steel through arch bridge over Missouri River on Broadway Blvd (US 169) in Kansas City
Location
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, and Clay County, Missouri
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1955; rehabilitated 1990, tolls removed 1991
Builders
- American Bridge Co. of New York (Contractor, Fabrication At Ambridge Plant)
- Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff of Kansas City, Kansas (Design)
- Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. of St. Louis, Missouri (Fabricator, A Few Bridge Elements, Incl. Bridge Shoes)
Design
Steel through arch suspension
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 539.9 ft.
Total length: 2,547.2 ft. (0.5 mi.)
Deck width: 47.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.5 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.11338, -94.58990   (decimal degrees)
39°06'48" N, 94°35'24" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/362543/4330561 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 50 N., R. 33 W., Sec. 31
USGS topographic map
Kansas City
Inventory numbers
MoDOT A-4649 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 3807 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21296 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 07/2011)
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: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 48.2 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
40,763

Categories 

American Bridge Co. (449)
Arch (9,420)
Built 1955 (254)
Built during 1950s (2,383)
Clay County, Missouri (66)
Flared (407)
Functionally obsolete (7,040)
Have street view (9,908)
Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff (7)
Jackson County, Missouri (159)
Kansas City, Missouri (95)
 Missouri (4,527)
Missouri River (95)
Navigable waterway (1,449)
Open (28,320)
Owned by state (9,810)
Skewed (4,080)
Span length 500-1000 feet (313)
Steel through arch (175)
Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. (60)
Total length over 2500 feet (587)
US 169 (17)

Update Log 

  • February 7, 2013: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added engineer, contractor, fabricator.
  • November 7, 2010: New photos from David Backlin
  • January 5, 2010: New photo from Eric Kinkhorst
  • February 15, 2009: New photos from Mark Frazier
  • June 6, 2008: Updated by Max Johnson
  • April 23, 2008: Updated by Max Johnson

Sources 

  • Mark Frazier - mfrazier [at] kc [dot] rr [dot] com
  • Eric Kinkhorst - e [dot] kinkhorst [at] centurytel [dot] net
  • David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
  • Nathan Holth
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Broadway Bridge
Posted July 18, 2012, by Kevin Anderson (iamcreated [at] att [dot] net)

Photo taken in July showing the convergence between the Broadway and the Hannibal Bridge next to it

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Broadway Bridge
Posted June 30, 2012, by Kevin Anderson (iamcreated [at] att [dot] net)

Photos taken June 23 2012

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Broadway Bridge, Kansas City Missouri over Missouri River
Posted June 6, 2008, by mary ann warfield (mw022 [at] wordsinger [dot] com)

The topo map for this bridge is not the correct map.

The Edwardsville Kansas Quadrangle comes up instead.