Rating:
47193
{95}%
2 votes
Fondulac Drive Bridge
Photos
Zoomed-in view looking south
Photo taken by Jacob P. Bernard in December 2010
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BH Photo #189498
Description
This bridge is very unusual, as the southwest end of the bridge literally slants down to a lower ground. It is also unusual because a new ramp was later threaded between a bent and an abutment.
Fondulac Drive runs from southwest to northeast. Underneath it, I-74 runs from southeast to northwest here, even though it is signed east-west. This creates some confusion as to orientation of photos and Google street views. Just keep in mind that the lower end of the bridge is southwest, and that the new I-74 eastbound ramp is threaded between the southwest bent and the southwest abutment. There is no ramp between the northeast bent and northeast abutment - that ramp runs under the main span next to mainline I-74 West.
The 52.5 foot vertical clearance over mainline I-74 easily allowed these new ramps to be built at a higher elevation than mainline I-74.
Facts
- Overview
- Warren deck truss bridge over I-74 on Fondulac Drive in East Peoria
- Location
- East Peoria, Tazewell County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1958, rehabilitated in 1997
- Builders
- - Illinois Highway Department
- Ralph C. Hahn
- Design
- Cantilevered Warren Deck truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 240.2 ft.
Total length: 420.0 ft.
Deck width: 28.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.66873, -89.57264 (decimal degrees)
40°40'07" N, 89°34'21" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/282546/4505166 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Peoria East
- Average daily traffic (as of 2014)
- 800
- Inventory numbers
- IL 090-0089 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 47193 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of September 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 75.3 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- October 23, 2021: Updated by Roger Deschner: Added photos, builder, clarification of orientation in photos
- December 4, 2018: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- December 1, 2010: Updated by Nathan Holth: Merged NBI Data.
- December 1, 2010: Added by Jacob P. Bernard
Sources
- Jacob P. Bernard
- Nathan Holth
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Roger Deschner - rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com
I have copied Ralph C. Hahn's great early images of this bridge, with annotation and probable dates, to "Photos". The color photo of the bridge under construction is especially interesting. It shows a worker riveting, and the bright red oxide metal primer. (Nathan - you can remove these pictures themselves from "Comments".)
Mr. Hahn was apparently one of the chief engineers for this project. These great photos and drawings were found by his stepson, John Becker.