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Kingsbury Avenue Bridge
Photos
Deck view, looking towards the east
Photo taken by Mark Dellbringge in August 2010
BH Photo #173129
Facts
- Overview
- Concrete stringer bridge on Kingsbury Avenue over the MetroLink in St. Louis
- Location
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1936 by the Missouri State Highway Department
- Railroad
- - Wabash Railroad (WAB)
- Design
- Concrete stringer
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 34.1 ft.
Total length: 89.9 ft.
Deck width: 42.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.65214, -90.29199 (decimal degrees)
38°39'08" N, 90°17'31" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/735654/4281654 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Clayton
- Inventory numbers
- MONBI 12949 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 45947 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 04/2015)
- Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 19.5 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2014)
- 1,300
Update Log
- November 19, 2014: Updated by James Holzmeier: Added link to image of bridge on westernrailimages.com
- August 22, 2010: Added by Mark Dellbringge
Sources
- Mark Dellbringge
- Kingsbury Ave. bridge - View looking north from the Waterman Blvd. bridge
- James Holzmeier - wabashry [at] gmail [dot] com
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Mark Dellbringge, you ask a very good question. As Kingsbury & Waterman are both municipal streets (and I can find no evidence, using Sanborn Maps throughout the years, that they were ever MO highways), the only thing I can postulate is that since these bridges were built during the Depression years, that maybe since federal funding, funneled through the state, paid for their construction, possibly that's why the state got credit for their construction. ???