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University Drive Bridge (Northbound)

Tarrant County, Texas

Photo 

Bridgemapper.com photo

Photo taken by Todd Wilson in March 2009

BH Photo #405184

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Pony truss over Clear Fork Trinity River on S. University Drive (Nouthbound)
Location
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1951; rehabilitated 1967
Design
Parker pony truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 130.0 ft.
Total length: 361.9 ft.
Deck width: 35.8 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+32.72389, -97.36083   (decimal degrees)
32°43'26" N, 97°21'39" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/653608/3621865 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Fort Worth
Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
32,510
Inventory numbers
TXNBI 022200ZU4000005 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 33383 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of March 2018)
Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 68 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Bridgemapper.com (1,325)
Built 1951 (287)
Built during 1950s (3,859)
Fort Worth, Texas (49)
Functionally obsolete (6,365)
Open (39,986)
Owned by city (5,476)
Parker pony truss (383)
 Parker truss (1,684)
Pony truss (16,245)
Span length 125-175 feet (4,236)
Tarrant County, Texas (75)
Texas (2,476)
Total length 250-500 feet (5,257)
Trinity River (Texas) (59)
Truss (32,984)

Update Log 

  • November 12, 2017: Updated by Royce and Bobette Haley: design
  • September 1, 2011: Updated by aaron leibold: Historic bridge is a 130' span Parker Through Truss/Traffic is southbound

Sources 

  • Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • aaron leibold - aaron [dot] mightypenguin [at] gmail [dot] com

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