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War Mothers Memorial Bridge
Description
The bridge won the Award of Merit from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) as the "Most Beautiful Steel Bridge" in Class B in 1938 as the Capital Bridge.Facts
- Overview
- Steel stringer bridge over Kentucky River on Capitol Avenue
- Location
- Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1938 by the Bethlehem Steel Co.
- Builder
- - Bethlehem Steel Co. of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Design
- Steel stringer
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 200.1 ft.
Total length: 705.1 ft.
Deck width: 29.9 ft.
- Also called
- Capital Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.19673, -84.87410 (decimal degrees)
38°11'48" N, 84°52'27" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/686158/4229778 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Frankfort East
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 11,180
- Inventory numbers
- KY 037-B00063N (Kentucky bridge number)
BH 49968 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of July 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 63.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Sources
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Engineering News-Record 1939-12-21: Vol 123 Iss 25
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This bridge would look good in Gotham City.