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Edison Bridge
Description
The Thomas A. Edison Bridge is an important example of a very large and early continuous deck plate girder highway bridge. It was the largest, highest, and longest span bridge of its type in the United States when completed. Its erection by the Bethlehem Steel Company involved the lifting of the world's longest (260') and heaviest (198 tons) girder to a height of 135'. Morris Goodkind made important contributions to twentieth-century highway bridge engineering.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Girder bridge over Raritan River on US Route 9 Northbound in Woodbridge Township
- Location
- Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey
- Status
- Open to traffic, new bridge added 2003
- History
- Built 1939
- Design
- Steel deck plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 250.0 ft.
Total length: 4,391.3 ft. (0.8 mi.)
- Also called
- Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.51000, -74.30000 (decimal degrees)
40°30'36" N, 74°17'60" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/559305/4484600 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Perth Amboy
- Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
- 41,965
- Inventory number
- BH 42822 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of August 2017)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 91.8 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- April 13, 2018: Updated by Amanda: Added category "Raritan River"
- December 28, 2014: HAER photos posted by Dave King
- June 20, 2009: Added by Ian Anderson
Sources
- Ian Anderson - macsignals [at] gmail [dot] com
- HAER NJ-119 - Thomas A. Edison Bridge, Spanning Raritan River at U.S. Route 9, South Amboy, Middlesex County, NJ
- HAER CT-177 - Bridge No. 00761, Spanning Housatonic River at State Route No. 15, Milford, New Haven County, CT
Something seems off on the location; the coordinates are pointing to Driscoll Bridge, which is much, much larger.