Rating:
3 votes
Jimmie Davis Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Steel through truss bridge over Red River on LA 511 in Shreveport
- Location
- Bossier City, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, and Caddo Parish, Louisiana
- Status
- Open to traffic Scheduled for Replacement
- Future prospects
- LADOTD and the NWLCOG have decided to replace the bridge instead of recondition.
- History
- Built 1968
- Design
- Three polygonal Warren through truss spans with verticals. Deck plate girder approaches.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 399.8 ft.
Total length: 2,822.4 ft. (0.5 mi.)
Deck width: 30.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.45879, -93.67932 (decimal degrees)
32°27'32" N, 93°40'46" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/436155/3591493 (zone/easting/northing)
- Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
- 22,200
- Inventory number
- BH 18976 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of July 2017)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 36 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- February 22, 2018: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- July 14, 2016: Updated by Brad Smith: Change of Plans, bridge to be replaced with UCEB
- April 12, 2014: Updated by Brad Smith: http://www.ksla.com/story/25084293/jimmie-davis-bridge-to-close-in-2015-residents-react
- July 28, 2013: New photos from M. D. Caillet
- April 13, 2010: Updated by Craig Philpott: refined description
- February 17, 2009: Updated by Wes Worsham
Sources
- Wes Worsham
- Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Brad Smith - gaberdine [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Jimmie Davis Bridge - HistoricBridges.org
Comments
Jimmie Davis Bridge
This bridge replacement is severely delayed. Local priorities have seemingly changed. Seems like building the I-69 Red River bridge (further south) may have become a higher priority.
While Louisiana may be spending more money under Bel Edwards than Jindal, it still is short of funds and keeping most of them south of Alexandria.
The truss bridge may have missed THIS round of replacements.
Jimmie Davis Bridge replacement
Jimmie Davis Bridge Closure for rehab
The Jimmie Davis Bridge is going to close later in 2014 for about a year. For paint and MAJOR rehab,
http://wwwapps.dotd.la.gov/administration/public_info/projec...
http://www.ksla.com/story/25084293/jimmie-davis-bridge-to-cl...
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Sure would be nice if they'd finish the Interstate we already have (I-49 to New Orleans) before they start working on another one! I'm pretty sure I'll go to my grave before they build the Lafayette Connector. I'm 32.