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I-5 - Willamette River Bridge (Southbound)

Lane County, Oregon
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I-5 - Willamette River Bridge (Southbound)

Completed southbound bridge, northbound bridge under construction in the foreground

Photo taken by Mike Goff in November 2011

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Willamette River Bridge Time Lapse 2011 HD

Time lapse video of construction on the I-5 Willamette River Bridge as seen from cameras above the site. The entire 2011 year in progress compressed to 2.5 minutes.

Video courtesy of Slayden Constrion

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Overview
Open-spandrel arch bridge over Willamette River on I-5 Southbound
Location
Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
Status
Open to traffic
Future prospects
The new southbound Willamette River Bridge is the first of a set of twin structure spanning the Willamette River on Interstate 5 in Eugene. The second bridge will be finished in 2014. The bridges feature two reinforced concrete arch spans both over 350-feet.
History
Built 2011
Builders
- Hamilton Construction of Springfield, Oregon (Contractor)
- OBEC Consulting Engineers (Engineering Design Firm)
Design
Two span open-spandrel arch with post-tensioned box girder approach spans
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 416.0 ft.
Total length: 1,984.8 ft.
Deck width: 64.0 ft.
Also called
Judkins Point Bridge (Southbound)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+44.04513, -123.04988   (decimal degrees)
44°02'42" N, 123°02'60" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
10/496004/4876886 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Eugene East
Inventory numbers
OR 21039 (Oregon Dept. of Transportation structure number)
BH 51620 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Arch (9,417)
Built 2011 (12)
Built during 2010s (37)
Concrete girder (519)
Continuous (898)
Deck arch (8,694)
Deck girder (1,796)
Eugene, Oregon (6)
Girder (3,230)
Hamilton Construction (10)
Have street view (9,883)
 I-5 (34)
Lane County, Oregon (88)
Modern (604)
OBEC Consulting Engineers (11)
Open (28,300)
Open-spandrel arch (581)
Oregon (689)
Owned by state (9,805)
Span length 250-500 feet (863)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,210)
Willamette River (46)

Update Log 

  • March 20, 2012: New Street View added by Michael Goff
  • March 5, 2012: Added by Mike Goff

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I-5 - Willamette River Bridge (Southbound)
Posted March 20, 2012, by Scott Gavin (fatpiecat2 [at] charter [dot] net)

My word! You mean they actually tore down a boring I-5 concrete post and concrete beam bridge and put something that had some architectural design to it? What IS the world coming to?