Paseo Bridge

Paseo Bridge
	The Paeseo Bridge 2008
use	Interstate 29 and 35 U.S. Highway 71;
Crossing of	Missouri River
place	North Kansas City and Kansas City , Missouri
Entertained by	Missouri Department of Transportation
construction	Suspension bridge
overall length	557 m
Longest span	188 m
Clear height	17 m ( HQ )
start of building	1952
opening	1954
planner	Jacob Karol (HNTB)
closure	2010
	location
	Former location of the Paeseo Bridge over the ; Missouri in the Kansas City metropolitan area

39.122777777778 -94.565833333333Coordinates: 39 ° 7 '22 " N , 94 ° 33' 57" W.

The Paseo Bridge was a four-lane road bridge over the Missouri River between North Kansas City and Kansas City , Missouri . It led Interstate 29 and 35 and US Highway 71 . The suspension bridge was built until 1954 and was one of the most heavily frequented road bridges in the Kansas City metropolitan area with a daily traffic volume of over 90,000 vehicles . The bridge reached its load limit at the beginning of the 21st century, whereupon the Missouri Department of Transportation, as operator , decided to build a new seven-lane cable - stayed bridge . After completion of the Christopher S. Bond Bridge , traffic was shifted to the new bridge in November 2010 and the Paseo Bridge was demolished.

history

With the development of the area north of Kansas City in the late 19th century, the need for a road bridge over the Missouri River , which formed the city boundary in the north , arose . The area of what will later become North Kansas City ( city status since 1912) was connected in 1869 by the first railroad bridge ever built over the Missouri ( Hannibal Bridge ), but it was not until the opening of the ASB Bridge in 1911 that a road connection existed. The ASB Bridge was built as a double-decker bridge for rail and road traffic and led Missouri Route 9 on its upper level until 1987 . Another double-decker bridge in a similar configuration was built in 1917 with the successor to the first Hannibal Bridge . This led to today's US Highway 169 on its upper level until 1956 , both bridges are still operated for rail freight traffic by the BNSF Railway .

Construction of the A- pylon of the new cable-stayed bridge in 2009; the dismantling of the Paseo Bridge began in November 2010

In the 1950s, more road bridges were built over the Missouri in Kansas City, including the four-lane Paseo Bridge from 1952 . The suspension bridge , designed by Jacob Karol, was built by Howard, Needles, Tammen and Bergendoff (HNTB) downstream of the Hannibal Bridge . It ran the US Highways 69 and 71 since its completion in August 1954 and was subject to tolls until 1972 . With the expansion of the Interstate Highways , Interstate 29 and 35 also ran over the bridge and the associated increase in daily traffic from initially 6,800 vehicles to over 90,000 at the beginning of the 21st century made the Paseo Bridge increasingly a bottleneck. Interim closings of the bridge due to necessary repair work in 2003 and 2005 made the problem clear again and forecasts predicted a further increase in traffic to 110,000 vehicles per day by 2030; expansion of the old bridge was only possible to a limited extent.

The Missouri Department of Transportation finally decided to build a new seven-lane road bridge downstream in the immediate vicinity of the old bridge, including the expansion of the adjoining access roads and motorway junctions , with which a traffic load of up to 130,000 vehicles can be handled in the future. Construction work on the pylon of the future cable-stayed bridge began in summer 2008, and with the completion of the Christopher S. Bond Bridge in November 2010, traffic was shifted to the new bridge. The old Paseo Bridge was then closed and completely dismantled the following year.

description

The approximately 557 m long steel bridge was divided into a 375.5 m long suspension bridge , to which the accesses from girder bridges of 80.8 m on the south side and 100.6 m on the north side connected. The deck girder of the suspension bridge was divided into spans of about 94 m, 188 m and 94 m by two H- pylons . The 42 m high pylons were erected on reinforced concrete foundations over 30 m high , with a base area of 30 m × 6 m. The suspension cables running over the pylons each consisted of 37 steel strands with a diameter of around 4 cm and, in contrast to conventional suspension bridges, were not fixed in anchor blocks , but rather at the ends of the girder. Such a self-anchoring design is one of the bridle bridges , whereby the track girder had to be designed for higher compressive forces and the girder was erected before the suspension cables were attached; During the subsequent dismantling, the track girder had to be supported before the suspension cable anchors were loosened.

The Paseo Bridge over the Missouri River in 2008. A special feature of the suspension bridge from the 1950s was the anchoring of the suspension cables on the roadway girder (also known as the bridle strap bridge ); View to the northeast, KCMO on the right .

Web links

Commons : Paseo Bridge - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Paseo Bridge, spanning Missouri River on Interstate 29/35, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO. Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. MO-116.

literature

Thomas J. Gubbels: PASEO BRIDGE (Missouri River Bridge No. L07345). Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. MO-116, Omaha, Nebraska 2008.
G. Chen, C. Courtright, LR Dharani, B. Xu: Failure Investigation of the Steel Strut on the Paseo Suspension Bridge. University of Missouri-Rolla, MoDOT Report No. RDT 05-008, 2005.

Individual evidence

^ To Architectural / Historic Survey of the City of North Kansas City, Missouri. Architectural and Art Historical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, February 1996, pp. 4-7.
↑ Thomas J. Gubbels: PASEO BRIDGE (Missouri River Bridge No. L07345). Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. MO-116, Omaha, Nebraska 2008, pp. 24-31.
↑ ^a ^b Shreenath Rao, Paul Littleton, Jagannath Mallel: Missouri Demonstration Project: Design-Build Procurement Process for Construction on I-29/35 (kcICON) in Kansas City, MO. Final Report June 2013, Office of Infrastructure, Federal Highway Administration, pp. 9-15, 23, 46-48, and others. 52.
↑ Thomas J. Gubbels: PASEO BRIDGE (Missouri River Bridge No. L07345). Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. MO-116, Omaha, Nebraska 2008, pp. 2-4.
↑ Demolition of Paseo Bridge. Bridge design and engineering, Finite Element Analysis Ltd., accessed August 19, 2018.

[1] To Architectural / Historic Survey of the City of North Kansas City, Missouri. Architectural and Art Historical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, February 1996, pp. 4-7.

[2] Thomas J. Gubbels: PASEO BRIDGE (Missouri River Bridge No. L07345). Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. MO-116, Omaha, Nebraska 2008, pp. 24-31.

[FHA2013-3] Shreenath Rao, Paul Littleton, Jagannath Mallel: Missouri Demonstration Project: Design-Build Procurement Process for Construction on I-29/35 (kcICON) in Kansas City, MO. Final Report June 2013, Office of Infrastructure, Federal Highway Administration, pp. 9-15, 23, 46-48, and others. 52.

[4] Thomas J. Gubbels: PASEO BRIDGE (Missouri River Bridge No. L07345). Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. MO-116, Omaha, Nebraska 2008, pp. 2-4.

[5] Demolition of Paseo Bridge. Bridge design and engineering, Finite Element Analysis Ltd., accessed August 19, 2018.