Rating:
45844
{95}%
1 vote
University Avenue Bridge
Description
Owner: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, as of 1961, formerly City of Philadelphia
Maintained by PennDOT
Designers: Paul Phillippe Cret, architect, and Stephen H. Noyes, engineer
Design: Beaux-Arts Double leaf bascule bridge
Materials: steel, limestone, concrete, bronze
Total length 536 feet
Width 100 feet
Number of spans 4
Piers in water 4
Clearance below 30 feet
Constructed by Dravo Contracting Company
Beginning date of construction 1925
Completion date 1930
Opened 1930
Facts
- Overview
- Bridge over Schuylkill River on University Avenue
- Location
- Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1929; rehabilitated 1985
- Builders
- - Dravo Contracting Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Paul Philippe Cret
- Design
- steel double leaf bascule bridge, concrete deck
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 120.1 ft.
Total length: 540.1 ft.
Deck width: 54.5 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on May 26, 1994
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.94194, -75.19722 (decimal degrees)
39°56'31" N, 75°11'50" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/483150/4421332 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Philadelphia
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 30,557
- Inventory numbers
- PA 67 3003 0050 0000 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
PANBI 38906 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
NRHP 94000515 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 45844 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of May 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 63.9 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- January 28, 2016: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- December 16, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- March 7, 2014: Updated by Dave King: Added NRHP #, street view and imported photos
- December 26, 2010: New photos from Jodi Christman
- August 9, 2010: Updated by D. Thomsen: Added categories, itemized description
Sources
- D. Thomsen - dcthomsen [at] comcast [dot] net
- Jodi Christman - masterofchaos [at] outlook [dot] com
- Wikipedia
- Douglas Butler
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- HAER PA-503 - University Avenue Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River at University Avenue (State Route 3003), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
- Historic Structure Report - Enormous Report Discussing Bridge
"University Avenue Bridge opens for barges guided by tugboats at an average rate of once a day."
http://uchs.net/HistoricDistricts/uavebridge.html