Rating:
4 votes
Midgley Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Steel arch bridge over Wilson Canyon on AZ A89
- Location
- Coconino County, Arizona
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1938
- Design
- Steel deck arch
- Dimensions
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Total length: 373.7 ft.
- Also called
- Wilson Canyon Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.88538, -111.74237 (decimal degrees)
34°53'07" N, 111°44'33" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 12/432162/3860583 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Munds Park
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 3,858
- Inventory numbers
- AZ 232 (Arizona bridge number)
BH 10712 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of September 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 50.7 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- August 5, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- November 20, 2014: Photo imported by Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- October 7, 2013: Updated by Brent Tindall: Changed name to reflect that of which is on signage
- August 25, 2010: New photos from Doug Kerr
- April 24, 2010: New Street View added by J.P.
- February 23, 2010: Updated by Craig Philpott: Corrected GPS data
- December 1, 2009: New photos from Robert Thompson
Sources
- Robert Thompson
- Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Doug Kerr
- Brent Tindall - bizzat219 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Geoff Hubbs
Comments
Midgley Bridge
This bridge will be getting a suicide barrier. I will never understand suicide barriers. In Toronto they did this for a bridge and while it stopped bridge jumpers, the total suicides in the city did not decrease, people found other ways to do it. Take this bridge for example. If they put up a barrier, what's to keep people from simply jumping into the gorge from any other location? Seems like falling off any part of this deep/shear canyon would be fatal. http://verdenews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&Art...
Meanwhile those of us who enjoy the view will have that obstructed with a barrier.
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The suicide barrier may not prevent deaths elsewhere, but it may protect the mental state and perhaps the physical safety of those that deal with the aftermath. I won't try to imagine the condition in which someone is found, and those that recover them may wish they could forget.