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Belle Vernon Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Cantilevered arch bridge over Monongahela River on I-70 in Speers
- Location
- Belle Vernon, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1951; rehabilitated 1993
- Design
- Cantilevered steel through arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 450.2 ft.
Total length: 2,066.0 ft. (0.4 mi.)
Deck width: 53.2 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 18.6 ft.
- Also called
- Speers Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.12658, -79.87828 (decimal degrees)
40°07'36" N, 79°52'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/595573/4442408 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Monongahela
- Inventory numbers
- PA 62 0070 0400 1415 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
PANBI 34533 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 31736 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 09/2009)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 43.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
- 14,148
Update Log
- June 19, 2017: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- January 20, 2017: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- January 21, 2009: Updated by Ian Anderson
Sources
- Ian Anderson - macsignals [at] gmail [dot] com
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Wikipedia
- Todd Wilson
- Dana and Kay Klein
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I found some pictures/postcards (copyrighted) of the bridge that crossed here before I-70 was built, and its successor. Also visible in some of them is one of PA's two known K-Trusses, on a railroad.
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jmohney/new_...
Ian.