Rating:
19186
{80}%
1 vote
Cottage Street Bridge
Photos
South elevation
Photo taken by Joshua Colella
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BH Photo #233538
Description
This structure was originally built in 1934 in North Adams. It was disassembled in 1959 and stored in the maintenance yard of MDPW (Orchard Street, Dalton). The truss and most of the floorbeams were salvaged/reconstructed at its current location (Cottage Street).
(Source: Construction Plan Set Dated Nov. 1961, Sheet 5 of 6)
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Housatonic River on Cottage Street in Great Barrington
- Location
- Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only; due for replacement
- History
- Built 1934; rehabilitated and moved here in 1961 to replace a lenticular truss of 1887.
- Design
- Parker pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 123.0 ft.
Total length: 133.9 ft.
Deck width: 29.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.19806, -73.36083 (decimal degrees)
42°11'53" N, 73°21'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/635331/4673067 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Great Barrington
- Average daily traffic (as of 2018)
- 240
- Inventory numbers
- MA G11006 (Massachusetts bridge number)
BH 19186 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of June 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 40.9 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- April 7, 2021: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
- June 16, 2020: Updated by Chester Gehman: Bridge is open to pedestrians only and is due for replacement
- February 24, 2017: New photos from Chester Gehman
- January 6, 2015: New photos from Jack Schmidt
- November 7, 2013: New Street View added by J.P.
- June 19, 2012: New photos from Joshua Colella
Sources
- Joshua Colella
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com
Great Barrington seems to be between a rock and a hard place over this bridge, and it will probably be closed until 2023. That's when state grant money will be available to replace it. Meanwhile, to re-hab the bridge would cost in the neighborhood of $400,000, a sum Great Barrington is reluctant to spend on a bridge that will be replaced anyway. So it will be pedestrians only until then.