Rating:
4 votes
Elysian Viaduct
Facts
- Overview
- Steel stringer bridge over Buffalo Bayou on Elysian Street
- Location
- Houston, Harris County, Texas
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1954
- Design
- Steel stringer
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 120.1 ft.
Total length: 5,762.4 ft. (1.1 mi.)
Deck width: 47.9 ft.
- Also called
- Elysian Street Viaduct
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +29.76501, -95.35098 (decimal degrees)
29°45'54" N, 95°21'04" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/272688/3295063 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Settegast
- Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
- 10,080
- Inventory numbers
- TXNBI 121020050801209 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 50088 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of November 2016)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 42.4 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- February 17, 2022: New Street View added by Bambi Sharkoman
- November 8, 2011: Added by James Baughn
Sources
- Jesse Sharkoman Berube - jesseberube5 [at] gmail [dot] com
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The original 1954 Elysian Viaduct was demolished over a period of months from 2017 to 2018. The replacement structure built by TxDOT opened in July 2021.