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Glebe Road Bridge
Photo
Southwest Side Of Bridge Looking East From Glebe Road With Chain Bridge In Background
Photo taken for the Historic American Engineering Record
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #312589
Description
Built as part of a project to extend the GWMP closer to a proposed terminus at Great Falls, Virginia.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Glebe Road & Stream on Gwmp
- Location
- Arlington County, Virginia
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1959; rehabilitated 1982
- Builders
- - L. B. Foster Co. of New York (railings & posts)
- Phoenix Bridge Co. of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (Steel fabricator)
- U.S. Bureau of Public Roads of Washington, D.C. (designer)
- Wright Contracting Co. (contractor)
- Design
- Continuous Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 149.9 ft.
Total length: 544.0 ft.
Deck width: 62.7 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.92883, -77.11878 (decimal degrees)
38°55'44" N, 77°07'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/316338/4311013 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Washington West
- Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 27,400
- Inventory number
- BH 65336 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of April 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 75 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- January 6, 2015: Added by Dave King
Sources
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- HAER VA-75 - Glebe Road Bridge, Spanning Glebe Road, Arlington, Arlington County, VA