Photos
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Portal Photos taken by Bill Burmaster |
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Inside the arch |
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View from a distance |
Facts
- Overview
- Steel through arch bridge over the Illinois River on I-39/US 51 near La Salle in Oglesby
- Location
- La Salle County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to four lanes of traffic
- History
- Built 1987
- Design
- Steel through arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 619.9 ft.
Total length: 7,120.2 ft.
Deck width: 82.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 19.3 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.31083, -89.08278 (decimal degrees)
41°18'39" N, 89°04'58" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/325655/4575355 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- La Salle
- Inventory numbers
- IL 050-0191 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15416 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 05/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 78.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 18,300
Comments
I just crossed this bridge Saturday, and it's beautiful. I'm so glad the work is done. Now, if they can just get around to ripping the shoulders off the rest of I-39 and redoing those, I-39 would be, perhaps, the best highway in the whole state.
They've been working on this thing forever. When you're southbound, they have you crammed ALL the way up to the guard rail with a width restriction of 12'6" and if you're a bridge-phobe, it's scary. Northbound you "cross over" into the southbound lane, the lane is much wider, and it's a "center" lane so it's not as scary. I cross it every few weeks and I wish they would just FINISH the work already!
The name of this bridge is the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge. I cross it when I travel to Wisconsin to visit family.