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Union Road Bridge

St. Louis County, Missouri
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Union Rd Bridge

Side View North on I-55

Photo taken by John Christeson in July 2009

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Facts 

Overview
Lost pair of concrete beam bridges over I-55 on Union Road
Location
Concord, St. Louis County, Missouri
Status
Replaced by UCEB
History
Built 1961; demolished March 26, 2010; replacement UCEB opened to traffic on December 1, 2010
Design
Beam
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 136.2 ft.
Total length: 467.9 ft.
Deck width: 28.2 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.54108, -90.30264   (decimal degrees)
38°32'28" N, 90°18'10" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/735090/4269301 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 44 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 24
USGS topographic map
Webster Groves
Inventory numbers
MONBI 422 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 44153 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 07/2008)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 57.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2008 29189)
10,577

Categories 

Beam (6,157)
Built 1961 (139)
Built during 1960s (1,230)
Concord, Missouri (2)
Continuous (921)
Curved (152)
Functionally obsolete (7,054)
Have street view (10,035)
I-55 (8)
 Lost (10,496)
Lost 2010 (255)
Lost during 2010s (706)
Missouri (4,533)
Owned by state (9,853)
Replaced by new bridge (7,220)
Span length 125-175 feet (2,966)
St. Louis County, Missouri (118)
Total length 250-500 feet (3,382)

Update Log 

  • June 24, 2011: New photo from Mark Dellbringge
  • December 1, 2010: Updated by Mark Dellbringge: Changed status. Bridge has been replaced by UCEB
  • February 18, 2010: Updated by David Backlin: Revised description
  • February 17, 2010: Added by John Christeson

Sources 

  • John Christeson - panamakid_69 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
  • Mark Dellbringge
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Union Road Bridge
Posted December 14, 2010, by Sharon Spear (sweetsexysharon [at] gmail [dot] com)

The replacement bridge is open. I'll get a couple of images of the replacement as soon as I can.

http://www.stltoday.com/suburban-journals/metro/opinion/article_60c53d76-9ca1-5230-ad65-60d3ec2826bd.html

Union Road Bridge
Posted September 12, 2010, by Sharon Spear (sweetsexysharon [at] gmail [dot] com)

As I've been traveling through the area, I've been taking photos of the construction site. I won't bore you with all the images here. I'm just now getting started uploading them to my Flickr page. Here's the link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharonmsimages/sets/72157624943436002/

The steel was starting to be lifted into place early yesterday morning. I was there taking photos. I will get them uploaded to the above link very soon. I shot a LOT of images yesterday morning!

I stopped by the site today after I got off work and shot some more images. They were still lifting steel. I plan on being at the site before daybreak to get some more images.

Union Road Bridge
Posted March 28, 2010, by Tracy

Hi! Great website! BTW, this bridge was imploded either Friday night or early Saturday morning (26 or 27 March).

Union Road Bridge
Posted March 26, 2010, by Mark Dellbringge

These bridges will be torn down tonight at 7 PM. SB I-55 traffic will exit at Bayless, NB I-55 traffic will exit at Reavis Barracks. You can bet the Bella Villa PD will be busy writing up tickets!

Union Road Bridge
Posted March 3, 2010, by Mark Dellbringge (mark [dot] dellbringge [at] conus [dot] army [dot] mil)

The Union Road bridges will be demolished during the weekend of March 26th - 29th. Interstate 55 will be closed during this time. Traffic will be required to use I-44 and I-270 as a detour.

Read the story here: http://www.modot.org/stlouis/major_projects/I55improvementproject.htm

Union Road Bridge
Posted February 19, 2010, by Mark Dellbringge (markdellbringge [at] netzero [dot] net)

The Union Road bridge is actually two bridges. MoDOT says they are structurally deficient. The southbound I-55 clearance under the bridge (14' 4") has been a point of concern for tractor-trailers. So both bridges will be demolished soon and they will be replaced in the same location with a higher clearance over the interstate. This is a part of an I-55 enhancement project (see MoDOT's website / St. Louis region / South County projects for more info).