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Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Schuylkill River in Philadelphia
- Location
- Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1895; rehabilitated 1986
- Design
- Baltimore through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 191.9 ft.
Total length: 566.0 ft.
Deck width: 25.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.2 ft.
- Recognition
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Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.00833, -75.19833 (decimal degrees)
40°00'30" N, 75°11'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/483072/4428700 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Germantown
- Inventory numbers
- PA 67 7301 0040 0004 (Pennsylvania bridge number)
BH 31515 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 07/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 53.7 (out of 100)
- Average daily traffic (as of 1981)
- 13,000
Comments
Falls Bridge
Posted October 9, 2008, by Bill Flis (flis [at] detk [dot] com)