Eighth Street Bridge
Photos
Eight Street Bridge
Counterweight machinery and posts removed
Photo taken by Douglas Butler in April 2013
BH Photo #283850
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Passaic River on Eighth Street in Passaic
- Location
- Passaic County, New Jersey, and Bergen County, New Jersey
- Status
- No longer exists
- Future prospects
- http://www.northjersey.com/news/legal-fight-stalls-plan-to-r...
- History
- Built 1914; rehabilitated 1965
- Builders
- - F.R. Long & Co. of New York City, New York
- F.R. Long - W.G. Broadhurst Co. of Hackensack, New Jersey (Builder)
- Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois (Design)
- Design
- Warren pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 85.0 ft.
Total length: 292.0 ft.
Deck width: 32.2 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.85524, -74.10925 (decimal degrees)
40°51'19" N, 74°06'33" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/575077/4523069 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Weehawken
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 6,560
- Inventory numbers
- NJ 1600004 (New Jersey bridge number)
BH 25459 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of May 2017)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 43.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- September 8, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- May 7, 2018: New photo from Luke
- May 24, 2015: Updated by Luke: Marked as doomed
- May 19, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- September 22, 2013: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added bascule type and builders.
- June 8, 2010: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added GPS.
Sources
- Nathan Holth
- Douglas Butler
- Luke
- Geoff Hubbs
Comments
This bridge is now removed. It was still listed in the CFR as a movable bridge, but stated that it didn't have to be opened for water traffic (especially as the downstream 2nd (Market) Street Bridge was replaced with a fixed bridge, rendering this part of the river non-navigable), plus there's a water main that was run over the eastern sidewalk that wouldn't let them open it in any case. (I've never seen it with the counterweight in place.)
What's there now is only a narrow wooden pedestrian crossing that's basically balanced on top of that water main, and a lot of cranes and excavators etc. I don't know what they're putting in its place.
Flood waters have reached this bridge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Uv5Q...!
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/nj/passaic/1600004/
Sorry, it's the western sidewalk that has the water main. Current street view *on* the bridge still shows the bridge with cars on it, but when you get to the approaches you see the barricades (albeit with the bridge still there beyond them).