Bridge Street Bridge
Photos
Bridge Street/Stuck River Bridge
View from Southwest
Photo taken by K. A. Erickson in February 2011
BH Photo #194075
Facts
- Overview
- Parker through truss bridge over Stuck River on Bridge Street in Sumner
- Location
- Pierce County, Washington
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1927
- Design
- Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 220.2 ft.
Total length: 359.9 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.6 ft.
- Also called
- Stuck River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +47.20389, -122.24583 (decimal degrees)
47°12'14" N, 122°14'45" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/557117/5228097 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Sumner
- Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
- 9,500
- Inventory number
- BH 34432 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of April 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 84 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- January 7, 2019: Updated by Nathan Holth: Demolished and replaced.
- June 10, 2013: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added planned demolition date.
- May 12, 2012: Updated by K. A. Erickson: Bridge to be replaced by city of Sumner soon
- February 20, 2011: New photo from K. A. Erickson
Comments
In 1940, master bridge engineer David Steinman slams engineers in his book "Bridges and Their Builders" for designing bridges which were themselves utilitarian and ugly, and required "embellishment and ornamentation." Ironically, in doing so, he was looking back to many of the metal truss bridges in which we see beauty today... yet I cannot help but wonder what he would think of the hideous looking structures that engineers today embellish with lighting and non-structural decorative elements in an attempt to do what I personally call "putting perfume on a skunk."
REEEEEEEEEETCH! BLEAH! GAGAGAGA! Man, that bridge is ugly!
Wow...I gotta say, I AM speechless...only because it's impossible to say anything while projectile vomiting.
I am speechless at the sheer beauty of the design for their iconic new bridge... NOT!!!
Todd Baslee photo
Sumner really hates this bridge.
So naturally they are going gaga for this design for the new one.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/05/18/3200154/council-mem...
"This seems to open it up a great deal for us," a nearby business resident commented at the meeting.
But at least they'll have the replica lampposts. Thank goodness for that right?
Sumner is in the process of redoing its main arterials. Construction and chaos exists. There are two plans for redoing streets westward, one with the current bridge the other with a multi-lane concrete structure. The lights that were on the bridge in earlier pictures are no longer there. They have also cleared foliage around the bridge. Have they reached a decision?
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/wa/pierce/85419000000000/
Demolition. https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/community/puyallup...