Buck O'Neil Bridge

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Coordinates: 39 ° 6 ′ 45 "  N , 94 ° 35 ′ 23"  W.

Buck O'Neil Bridge
Buck O'Neil Bridge
Official name Buck O'Neil Memorial Bridge
use US 169.svg US Highway 169
Crossing of Missouri River
place Kansas City , Missouri
Entertained by Missouri Department of Transportation
construction Tied arch bridge
overall length 843 m
width 17 m
Longest span 165 m
Clear height 16 m
building-costs 12 million US dollars
opening 1956
planner HNTB (Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff)
location
Buck O'Neil Bridge (USA)
Buck O'Neil Bridge
Kansas City satellite map (cut) Hannibal-Bridge.jpg
The Buck O'Neil Bridge Red circle thick.svg over the Missouri
in the metropolitan area of ​​Kansas City
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The Buck O'Neil Bridge , formerly Broadway Bridge , is a four-lane road bridge over the Missouri River in Kansas City , Missouri . The tied arch bridge from 1956 runs along US Highway 169 and is operated by the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT). The volume of traffic in 2016 was 34,600 vehicles per day. It is named after the African American baseball player John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil .

history

The Buck O'Neil Bridge in 2006 behind the Hannibal Bridge in 1917

The bridge, then called Broadway Bridge , was built from the end of 1954 to replace the neighboring Hannibal Bridge and opened on September 5, 1956. The Hannibal Bridge from 1917 was until then a double-decker bridge with a two-lane street level in the upper area, which was later removed; the lower level is still used today by the BNSF Railway . In honor of the former African American baseball player John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil (1911-2006), it was renamed the Buck O'Neil Memorial Bridge in 2016 . O'Neil played in the Negro American League for the Kansas City Monarchs from 1938 to 1947 and was later manager of the team.

The increasing maintenance and repair effort of the over 60 year old bridge prompted the operator MoDOT to carry out a study on overhaul and new construction options by 2017. Funding for a new build is currently being considered through the United States Department of Transportation's INFRA (Infrastructure For Rebuilding America) program , which is more expensive than a bridge overhaul, but less expensive in the long run. The volume of traffic was 34,600 vehicles per day in 2016, with an increase to 66,000 vehicles by 2040.

Location and description

The bridge is located approximately 2 km downstream from the confluence of the Kansas River and the Missouri River , just past the apex of a loop of the meandering Missouri. The US Highway 169 running over it connects downtown Kansas City , Missouri , with the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport and with the northern city of Riverside . North Kansas City , east of the airport, is not directly accessible via the highway, as there is a large marshalling yard of the BNSF Railway (Murray Yard) in between .

The main part of the approximately 850 meter long steel bridge are three 17 meter wide arched arch bridges 165, 138 and 137 meters long (from south to north), with the arches being designed as trusses and the stiffening girders as solid wall girders . The entrances on both sides are made up of a large number of girder bridges with spans of 20 to 38 meters. The clear height of the southern tied arch bridge over the shipping channel is around 20 meters at low tide and around 16 meters at high tide .

Web links

Commons : Buck O'Neil Bridge  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monroe Dodd: Kansas City Then and Now II. Kansas City Star Books, 2003, ISBN 0-9740009-1-4 , p. 206.
  2. ^ Hannibal Bridge / Second Hannibal Bridge. HistoricBridges.org, accessed August 31, 2018.
  3. ↑ Jeffrey Flanagan: Kansas City bridge renamed to honor O'Neil. Kansas City Royals, October 6, 2016. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
  4. ^ Kansas City District Traffic Volume and Commercial Vehicle Count Map. ( September 1, 2018 memento on the Internet Archive ) Missouri Department of Transportation, 2016.
  5. ^ The New Buck O'Neil (US 169) Crossing. Infrastructure For Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Application, City of Kansas City, Missouri, 2017.
  6. ↑ Michael Rhodes: North American Railyards. MBI Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0-7603-1578-7 , pp. 24-29.
  7. ↑ Broadway Bridge / Buck O'Neil Bridge. HistoricBridges.org. Accessed August 31, 2018.