Rating:
31736
{98}%
1 vote
Belle Vernon Bridge
Description
A small portion of this bridge lies in Fayette County.
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
-
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
- Average daily traffic (as of 2018)
- 35,798
- 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 report (as of September 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 52 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
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
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.