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Overview: Steel plate-girder bridge over Chestnut Trafficway on Lexington Avenue in Kansas City
Location: Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1900-01 by the Central Electric Railroad Co.; remodeled 1907; rehabilitated 1965 and 2006
Builder: - Waddell & Hedrick (Design)
Design: Deck plate girder
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 65.0 ft.
Total length: 386.1 ft.
Deck width: 42.6 ft.
Recognition: Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude: +39.11167, -94.54500 (decimal degrees)
39°06'42" N, 94°32'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/366422/4330304 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey: T. 50 N., R. 33 W., Sec. 34
USGS topographic map: Kansas City
Inventory numbers: MoDOT S-026B33 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 25391 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21700 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 02/2006): Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 34.7 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2002): 7,000

Lexington Avenue Bridge

Posted May 27, 2009, by Euguene Davis (eugene_davis [at] yahoo [dot] com)

This bridge is now open.