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Facts
- Overview
- Lost deck truss bridge over Woods Run Avenue on Davis Avenue in Pittsburgh
- Location
- Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Demolished May 6th, 2009
- History
- Built 1898 by Fort Pitt Bridge Works; rehabilitated 1986; closed to traffic in 2001, demolished 2009
- Builders
- - C.M. Driver (Substructure)
- Fort Pitt Bridge Works
- Gustav Kaufman (Superstructure)
- Design
- Cantilevered Pratt deck truss (See the diagram on page 10 of the HAER report)
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 155.8 ft.
Total length: 399.0 ft.
Deck width: 20.3 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.48180, -80.02564 (decimal degrees)
40°28'54" N, 80°01'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/582584/4481689 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Pittsburgh West
- Inventory numbers
- PA 02 7301 0000 3024 (Pennsylvania bridge number)
BH 30234 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 06/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Imminent Failure (1 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 33.0 (out of 100)
Update Log
- May 6, 2009: Bridge was in fact cantilevered, see page 10 of the HAER report
- May 6, 2009: Updated by Ian Anderson
- May 5, 2009: Updated by Ian Anderson: fixed bridge type, not a cantilever truss
- April 18, 2009: Posted HAER photos
Sources
- HAER PA-487 - Davis Avenue Bridge, Spanning Woods Run Avenue at Davis Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Ian Anderson - macsignals [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Okay, my apologies for jumping the gun and editing the bridge to say it wasn't a cantilever truss, just didn't appear to be one at first. Now that I actually read the HAER report and look at the bridge I see how it is (was) in fact a cantilevered structure.
Sorry to jump the gun,
Ian A
This bridge is no more.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/19382612/detail.html
Just an FYI this bridge is schedule for implosion on 5/6/09