Historic Bridges of the U.S. | Scottsboro Bridge

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Photo taken by Sheila Fossett

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Overview: Cantilevered through truss bridge over Tennessee River on AL 35 at Scottsboro
Location: Jackson County, Alabama
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1930
Design: Cantilevered through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 310.1 ft.
Total length: 2,143.1 ft.
Deck width: 19.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.1 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +34.63333, -85.96667 (decimal degrees)
34°37'60" N, 85°58'00" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers: AL 784 (Alabama bridge number)
BH 10134 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 05/2006): Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 7.7 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2006): 7,730

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October 2, 2006: Posted photos from Sheila Fossett

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Scottsboro Bridge

Posted September 12, 2007, by Dennis Lambert (dennylambert [at] aol [dot] com)

This bridge is known as the B. B. Comer bridge and is scheduled by the Alabama Department of Transportation for replacement. Construction on the new bridge, which is similar to that of the newer structure built in the 1980s and slightly upriver from it, is to begin soon (around 2008). The old bridge originally carried two-way traffic and now carries only two-lanes of eastbound traffic of Alabama Highway 35 while the newer bridge carries the two-lanes of westbound traffic.

Dennis Lambert

Bridgeport, Alabama