Jennings Randolph Bridge
Coordinates: 40 ° 37 ′ 9 ″ N , 80 ° 33 ′ 42 ″ W.
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| Official name | Jennings Randolph Memorial Bridge | |
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 US Highway 30
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| Crossing of | Ohio River | |
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East Liverpool , Ohio and Chester , West Virginia |
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| Entertained by | West Virginia Department of Transportation | |
| construction | Truss bridge | |
| overall length | 616 m | |
| width | 18 m | |
| Longest span | 227 m | |
| building-costs | 47 million US dollars | |
| start of building | 1971 | |
| completion | 1977 | |
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The Jennings Randolph Bridge is a four-lane road bridge over the Ohio River between East Liverpool in Ohio and Chester in West Virginia . It runs along US Highway 30 and is operated by the West Virginia Department of Transportation . It is named after the politician Jennings Randolph , who was US Senator for West Virginia for over thirty years .
The bridge was built between 1971 and 1977 to replace the old two-lane Chester Bridge . Heavy corrosion on the suspension cables of this suspension bridge from 1897 led to its closure in 1969 and finally to its demolition a year later. The new four-lane road bridge was built one kilometer upstream and consists of a central truss bridge and several adjacent girder bridges that branch off towards East Liverpool and form a freeway triangle with Pennsylvania Avenue on the bank .
The central steel - truss is as parallelgurtiges stand truss executed (Pratt truss) and has a length of 227 meters. It is one of the world's longest simple lattice girders between two supports and weighs around 3,600 tons; the record for railway bridges is held by the Metropolis Bridge with 220 meters, which has also crossed the Ohio since 1917.
Web links
- Jennings Randolph Memorial Bridge. Bridgehunter.com.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chester Bridge. Chester, West Virginia. Laurel Hollow Park, Newell, West Virginia. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
- ↑ a b Jennings Randolph Bridge. Laurel Hollow Park, Newell, West Virginia. Retrieved July 8, 2018.