Tuscarawas Avenue Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Closed-spandrel arch bridge over Tuscarawas River on Tuscarawas Avenue in Dover
- Location
- Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
- Status
- Replaced by new UCEB
- History
- Built 1907 by the Concrete - Steel Engr. Co., New York; rehabilitated 1956; Replaced 2010
- Builder
- - Concrete-Steel Engineering Co. of New York, New York
- Design
- Closed-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 107.0 ft.
Total length: 400.9 ft.
Deck width: 36.1 ft.
- Also called
- Factory Street Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.51762, -81.47610 (decimal degrees)
40°31'03" N, 81°28'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/459668/4485319 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Dover
- Average daily traffic (as of 1951)
- 13,000
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 7960018 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 28481 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of February 2009)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 43.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- September 9, 2018: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- November 16, 2017: New photo from Dave King
- September 14, 2017: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- June 5, 2017: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- May 17, 2011: New photos from Nathan Holth
- May 17, 2011: Updated by Ian Anderson: Bridge has been replaced
- April 14, 2010: Updated by Joshua Collins: made slight adjustment to gps coordinates
Related Bridges
- Tuscarawas Avenue Fink Truss (Predecessor)
Sources
- Joshua Collins - Bigjc1979 [at] aol [dot] com
- Ian Anderson - macsignals [at] gmail [dot] com
- Nathan Holth
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
Comments
Ohio has also demolished several open and closed spandral through arches too.
Better throw in one of these for good measure.......
If this bridge is supposed to be state of the art and able to hold increasing amounts of traffic- much better than the arch bridges like the ones we have here in Europe- then I have this to say: OH SPARE ME!!!!
Good idea, Ohio has certainly earned it over the years since they seem to have demolished more concrete arches than any other state when you consider Dayton, Columbus, and other places.
I second that, POOP QUAKE!!!! Hay Nathan, where's those barf bags???? BLARG!!!
I added some photos from the Historic Bridge Inventory showing the historic bridge. The replacement bridge is an epic failure.
In the famous words of Wayne Kizziar--POOP QUAKE!!
Yeah..... Despite the nice beige and red paint scheme.... It's still ugly!
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/oh/tuscarawas/7960018/
Photo 10 should be deleted as it is of the older Wooster Avenue Bridge, which already has the same picture on its page:
https://bridgehunter.com/oh/tuscarawas/bh78433/