Platte Purchase Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Cantilever through truss bridge over the Missouri River on Northbound US 69 in Kansas City
- Location
- Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri, and Wyandotte County, Kansas
- Status
- Demolished
- History
- Built 1957; rehabilitated 1997, prepared to be made into soup cans 2016
- Design
- Cantilevered Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 474.6 ft.
Total length: 2,601.3 ft. (0.5 mi.)
Deck width: 25.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.7 ft.
- Also called
- Fairfax Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.15686, -94.62347 (decimal degrees)
39°09'25" N, 94°37'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/359727/4335438 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- North Kansas City
- Land survey
- T. 50 N., R. 33 W., Sec. 8
- Average daily traffic (as of 2014)
- 12,410
- Inventory numbers
- MONBI 300 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22345 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of July 2014)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 44.2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- December 9, 2016: Updated by Matt Lohry: Bridge has been replaced.
- November 3, 2014: Updated by Chris Knight: Now 2-way traffic also added Fairfax Bridge as an unofficial common name.
- November 9, 2013: Updated by Chris Knight: Added Note about Replacement as Early as October 2014 per http://www.kansascity.com/2013/11/07/4605453/kansas-city-wants-the-state-to.html
- January 27, 2013: New photos from James Baughn
- September 20, 2011: New photos from Jason Smith
- March 9, 2010: Updated by Robert Elder: Added Street View link
- March 2, 2010: Updated by Robert Elder: Adjusted GPS Coordinates and added Kansas City, Kansas to Cities. Bridge is in both KCK and KCMO.
- April 30, 2008: New photo from Max Johnson
- February 28, 2008: Updated by Robert Elder: Edited "Design"
Related Bridges
- Fairfax Bridge (Upstream) - Companion Structure to This Bridge
Sources
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- Wikipedia
- Matt Lohry
Comments
Videos of the demolition:
http://fox4kc.com/2016/12/09/old-platte-purchase-bridge-to-b...
As of December 9, 2016, the main spans and northern approaches have now been demolished...the rest is to be blown up after the 1st of the year.
Bridge is in it's final days. The new bridge is almost complete, with the final deck pour in September. Once the new bridge is "completed", it will open to two lane traffic. The Platte Purchase Bridge then will be removed, and the other lanes completed.
Free Bridge
This bridge and its neighbor bridge Fairfax are scheduled for replacement in 2014 http://www.modot.org/kansascity/major_projects/US69MRB.htm
and are available free for relocation
http://www.modot.org/freebridges/
The finalists for design and build teams can be found at
http://www.modot.org/kansascity/major_projects/documents/US6...
I was so glad when the deck was finally upgraded. I was terrified of this bridge as a child - the deck back then was slatted, and you could look down and see the river beneath you while waiting in line for the toll booth.
Thank you for photo. Toll booth was removed about summer 2000. Now it is free bridges. I went to Platte Purchase Bridges. THANK YOU.
Yup, thats the Fairfax and Platte Purchase bridges.
Glad you got some shots as this site did not have any.
Dan these two shots are beautiful.
It's hard to get close enough to get good pictures. These are from March 08.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/platte/purchase/
Just for old times sake...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0p0dfx5Y10