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Belleville Turnpike Bridge

Essex County, New Jersey, and Bergen County, New Jersey
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Photos 

Overview

Photos taken by Christopher Stokes for the Historic American Engineering Record

Map 

Street View 

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Facts 

Overview
Lost through truss bascule bridge over Passaic River on NJ 7 in Belleville/North Arlington/Kearny
Location
Essex County, New Jersey, and Bergen County, New Jersey
Status
No longer exists
History
Built 1914 by the Strauss Bascule Bridge Co.; replaced 2003
Builder
- Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
Design
Bascule Warren through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 110.0 ft.
Total length: 336.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.78667, -74.14833   (decimal degrees)
40°47'12" N, 74°08'54" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/571857/4515424 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Orange
Inventory numbers
NJ 0208150 (New Jersey bridge number)
BH 25162 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 01/2007)
Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 70.6 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
18,300

Categories 

Bascule (559)
Bergen County, New Jersey (49)
Built 1914 (532)
Built during 1910s (6,730)
Essex County, New Jersey (42)
HAER documented (781)
Have street view (9,883)
Lost (10,356)
Lost 2003 (439)
Lost during 2000s (3,090)
Movable (1,355)
Navigable waterway (1,448)
 New Jersey (749)
Owned by state (9,807)
Passaic River (33)
Span length 100-125 feet (3,299)
Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. (26)
Strauss Heel Trunnion Bascule (10)
Through truss (9,205)
Total length 250-500 feet (3,371)
Truss (23,565)
Warren through truss (926)
Warren truss (3,957)

Update Log 

  • February 15, 2011: New Street View added by Jason Smith
  • September 11, 2006: Posted HAER photos

Sources 

  • HAER NJ-127 - Route 7 Bridge, Route 7 (1AG) over Passaic River, Belleville, Essex County, NJ
  • Jason Smith - JDSmith77 [at] gmx [dot] net
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Belleville Turnpike Bridge
Posted June 5, 2007, by Don Shorock (don [at] shorock [dot] com)

These are pictures of the new bridge that replaced the bascule bridge. They were taken by my mother, Isobel Shorock, on the day the new bridge was opened to traffic.

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Belleville Turnpike Bridge
Posted June 5, 2007, by Don Shorock (don [at] shorock [dot] com)

These are postcards from 1906 showing the predecessor of the bascule bridge.

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Belleville Turnpike Bridge
Posted May 2, 2007, by Anonymous

The new v-lift bridge:

http://hardesty-hanover.com/projects/movable/vertical_lift/route7.asp

Belleville Turnpike Bridge
Posted May 2, 2007, by Anonymous

This bridge was replaced by a vertical lift bridge in the early 2000's.