Rating:
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Lexington Avenue Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Steel plate-girder bridge over Chestnut Trafficway on Lexington Avenue in Kansas City
- Location
- Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1900-01 by the Central Electric Railroad Co.; remodeled 1907; rehabilitated 1965 and 2006
- Builder
- - Waddell & Hedrick of Kansas City, Missouri (Design)
- Railroad
- - Central Electric Railway
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 65.0 ft.
Total length: 386.1 ft.
Deck width: 42.6 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.11080, -94.54813 (decimal degrees)
39°06'39" N, 94°32'53" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/366150/4330213 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Kansas City
- Land survey
- T. 50 N., R. 33 W., Sec. 34
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 8,474
- Inventory numbers
- MoDOT S-026B33 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 25391 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21700 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of February 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 60.8 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- August 10, 2012: Updated by Clark Vance: Added categories "Rail-to-road", "Railroad"
- July 6, 2006: Posted new photos
Comments
Lexington Avenue Bridge
From the Kansas City MO Public Library site:
http://www.kchistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Mrs&...
"The Missouri Valley Room of the [Kansas City, MO] Public Library has a 3 volume printed report, used in a court case against the Metropolitan street railway system, describing the bridge and its construction in minute detail and giving sketches, elevations and a detailed appraisal of costs. Material, men, grading, dirt removal, concrete, anchorage metal, steel, donkeys, tin cups used by the workmen and even the penwipers for the bookkeepers are included."
Lexington Avenue Bridge
This bridge is now open.
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Field visit in 2016 shows that someone crashed into the bent of this bridge and died (flowers/memorial present). It badly bent some of the bracing.