Olentangy River CR 141E (St. James Rd.) Bridge
Photos
Northern Portal
Kings Mill Golf Course is in the background to the left
Photo taken by Joshua Collins in March 2009
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Olentangy River on CR 141E (St. James Rd.)
- Location
- Marion County, Ohio
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Future prospects
- Slated for demolition and replacement in 2015.
- History
- Built 1937; rehabilitated 1987
- Design
- Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 188.0 ft.
Total length: 192.9 ft.
Deck width: 28.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 11.5 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.51245, -83.05335 (decimal degrees)
40°30'45" N, 83°03'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/326038/4486662 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Marion East
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 5132428 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 27992 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 09/2011)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 18.2 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
- 460
Update Log
- July 18, 2012: Updated by Nathan Holth: This bridge is now doomed.
- April 1, 2009: Updated by Joshua Collins: road name, categories
Sources
- Joshua Collins - Bigjc1979 [at] aol [dot] com
- Nathan Holth
Comments
Here we go again. A beautiful, unique preservable historic metal truss bridge... slated to be demolished and replaced with a non-historic, fake wooden covered bridge. And it gets worse. Someone is going around claiming that wooden bridges will last longer than other bridge types... over 100 years. Where do they get off saying that? If wood is this amazing material how come wooden decks on metal truss bridges have to be replaced all the time? How come wooden bridges stopped being built and engineers switched to metal and concrete in the late 1800s? How come the majority of existing wooden covered bridges suffer from a significant loss and replacement of original bridge material? Why do iron bridges from the 1820s in England still serve traffic today? If they want a bridge that will last 150 years, they simply need to rehab this historic truss bridge. News article: http://www.marionstar.com/article/20120715/LIFESTYLE/207150308
Photos taken 2/10/07
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