Rating:
12203
{79}%
3 votes
Mystic River Bascule Bridge
Photos
Photo taken by John Reidy
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BH Photo #176189
Description
The Mystic River Bridge is significant as an example of the Brown Balance Beam Bascule, an innovative design that raised movable-bridge technology to a new level of refinement in the early 20th century. The bridge also has historical significance because it completed the State Highway Department's improvement program for coastal Route 1, Connecticut's most important "Trunk Line" highway.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Bascule bridge over Mystic River on US 1 West Main Street at Mystic
- Location
- Mystic, New London County, Connecticut
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1922
- Builders
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Cianbro Corporation of Pittsfield, Maine (Rehab)
- J.E. FitzGerald Construction Co. of New London, Connecticut (Construction)
- Thomas Ellis Brown (Design)
- Railroad
- - Groton & Stonington Street Railway (G&S)
- Design
- Bascule Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 85.0 ft.
Total length: 220.2 ft.
Deck width: 33.1 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.35444, -71.96944 (decimal degrees)
41°21'16" N, 71°58'10" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 19/251593/4582359 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Mystic
- Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
- 11,800
- Inventory numbers
- CT 362 (Connecticut bridge number)
BH 12203 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of May 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 83 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- December 12, 2020: New photos from Josh Schmid
- November 11, 2015: New photos from Douglas Butler
- August 17, 2015: Updated by Douglas Butler: Added explaining info
- February 18, 2015: Photo imported by Dave King
- December 29, 2014: HAER photos posted by Dave King
- July 18, 2014: New photos from Douglas Butler
- August 20, 2013: Photo imported by Dave King
- October 3, 2012: New photos from Jann Mayer
- March 23, 2012: Photos imported by James Baughn
- March 19, 2011: Updated by J.P.: updated location
- September 5, 2010: New photo from John Reidy
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