Rating:
63037
{99}%
2 votes
Barton Creek Boulevard Bridge
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Barton Creek Boulevard Bridge
Looking East
Photo taken by Royce and Bobette Haley in September 2014
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BH Photo #294470
Description
The only single girder fin back bridge in America. It has an unsymmetrical span arrangement of 156, 340 and 190 feet. It was built as a cast in place, pre-stressed, box beam/girder balanced cantilever. This design essentially acts as an inverted haunched girder. It was built to showcase the entrance to the Estates of Barton Creek subdivision. A subdivision of Multi-million dollar houses. The design was chosen to minimize environmental impacts to the Barton Creek Gorge.
Facts
- Overview
- Concrete fin back beam bridge over Barton Creek on Barton Creek Blvd.
- Location
- Travis County, Texas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1986
- Builders
- - Prescon Corporation of Corpus Christi, Texas (Contractors)
- Quandel of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Engineer)
- Tony Gee & Partners LLP of Esher, Surrey, England, United Kingdom (Engineer)
- Design
- The only single girder fin back bridge in America. It has an unsymmetrical span arrangement of 156, 340 and 190 feet. It was built as a cast in place, pre-stressed, box beam/girder balanced cantilever. This design essentially acts as an inverted haunched girder.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 339.9 ft.
Total length: 694.9 ft.
Deck width: 47.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +30.29639, -97.85139 (decimal degrees)
30°17'47" N, 97°51'05" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/610453/3352186 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Austin West
- Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
- 4,543
- Inventory numbers
- TXNBI 142270AA1856001 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 63037 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of April 2018)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 87.9 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- December 8, 2015: Updated by Erik Hoffman: Added category "Asymetrical"
- September 18, 2014: New Street View added by Royce and Bobette Haley
Sources
- Todd Wilson
- Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
This just seems to be this: http://bridgehunter.com/oh/gallia/adamsville/ but with just one girder instead of two