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Strawberry Mansion Bridge, looking upstream from Kelly Drive

Photo taken by D. Thomsen

Overview: Steel arch bridge over Schuylkill River on Strawberry Mansion in Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1897; rehabilitated 1998
Design: Steel arch
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 200.1 ft.
Total length: 1,242.2 ft.
Deck width: 32.2 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +39.99500, -75.19500 (decimal degrees)
39°59'42" N, 75°11'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 18/483353/4427220 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map: Philadelphia
Inventory numbers: PA 67 7301 0160 0115 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
PANBI 39231 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 31542 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 08/2008): Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 19.1 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1996): 14,500

Strawberry Mansion Bridge

Posted February 25, 2011, by Frank Hicks

The south side of the bridge deck originally carried Fairmount Park Transit streetcars as seen at http://davesrailpix.com/phila/htm/phil163.htm

Strawberry Mansion Bridge

Posted April 21, 2008, by Bill Flis (flis [at] detk [dot] com)

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Strawberry Mansion Bridge

Posted February 25, 2007, by Gary Hudes (ghudes [at] comcast [dot] net)

Several images of this bridge at sunrise during winter 2007