Ellsworth Street Bridge
Coordinates: 44 ° 38 ′ 21 ″ N , 123 ° 6 ′ 24 ″ W.
 Ellsworth Street Bridge
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| use | Eastbound lane of US Highway 20 | |
| Crossing of | Willamette River | |
| place | Albany , Oregon | |
| Entertained by | Oregon Department of Transportation | |
| construction | Truss girder bridge made of steel | |
| overall length | 332.5 m | |
| width | 8 m | |
| Longest span | 244 m | |
| Clear height | 7.5 m | |
| start of building | 1925 | |
| opening | 1926 | |
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The Ellsworth Street Bridge is a trunk road bridge that crosses the Willamette River in Albany , Oregon . It was built in 1925 and leads the two-lane, eastbound carriageway of US Highway 20 across the river (westbound traffic runs over the Lyon Street Bridge ). The 332.5 m long steel truss bridge was designed by Conde McCullough and opened to traffic in 1926.
history
In 1887 a bridge was built over the Willamette River in Albany to serve the Corvallis and Eastern . The state began building a road bridge in the city in 1925. The structure was designed by the Department of Transportation bridge planner Conde McCullough and built by the Union Bridge Company of Portland . The steel framework construction was completed in 1926.
With the opening of the structure, the highway from Albany to Corvallis was continuously passable. The finished structure was named Albany Bridge . In 1973 the neighboring Lyon Street Bridge was built to increase the capacity of the road connection to two lanes in each direction. The Ellsworth Street Bridge was repaired in 1971 and 2002. In 2004, an average of 9850 vehicles drove over the bridge every day.
Details
The structure at mile 10.44 is classified as functionally obsolete with an occupancy rate of 53.8%. The two lanes accommodate the eastbound traffic on US Route 20 into central Albany. The main span of the bridge is formed by four continuous steel girders, each of which is 61 m long. The Ellsworth Street Bridge is a total of 332.5 m long and 8 m wide. The distance between the surface of the water and the lower edge of the bridge is about 7.5 m. The secondary spans made of concrete correspond to the box girder construction. The green-painted bridge has ornate concrete railings and pillars on each portal. It is one of the few steel girder bridges built in Oregon while McCullough was in office, and is one of the last multi-span steel girder bridges still in service in the state.
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Upstream Harrison Street Bridge
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Crossings of the Willamette River |
Downstream Lyon Street Bridge
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Individual evidence
- ^ North Albany Milestones work = Community Development - North Albany Refinement Plan (NARP) ( English ) City of Albany, Oregon. Retrieved December 3, 2008.
- ↑ a b c d Dwight A. Smith, James B. Norman, Pieter T. Dykman: Albany Bridge ( English ) In: Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon . Oregon Dept. of Transportation, Environmental Section, 1985. p. 76. Archived from the original on June 13, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 3, 2008.
- ↑ a b c Ian Rollins: Are our bridges safe? ( English ) Albany Democrat Herald. August 2, 2007. Retrieved December 3, 2008.
- ↑ a b c Historic American Engineering Record OR0301 ( English ) Library of Congress. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d National Bridge Inventory ( English ) Nationalbridges.com. Retrieved December 3, 2008.
