Poplar Street Bridge
Photos
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View from MacArthur Bridge Photo taken Jan. 2004 by Brian Frierdich |
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Driving across Photo taken by Bill Burmaster |
Facts
- Overview
- Steel deck girder bridge over the Mississippi River on I-55/I-64/I-70/US 40 in downtown St. Louis
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1963
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 600.0 ft.
Total length: 2,164.4 ft.
Deck width: 104.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Bernard F. Dickman Bridge (official name)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.62000, -90.18000 (decimal degrees)
38°37'12" N, 90°10'48" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Land survey
- T. 45 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 23
- Inventory numbers
- MONBI 1244 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22658 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 09/2003)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Not deficient
Sufficiency rating: 82.7 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
- 99,055
Sources
- Brian Frierdich - railtrekker [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Bill Burmaster
- Wikipedia
Comments
YES! AVOID THIS BRIDGE IT'S NOT JUST THE ROAD REPAIRS...IT'S JUST A OLD DANGEROUS BRIDGE! IN APRIL OF 1997 MY SON, SHAWN RUSH WAS KILLED ON THAT BRIDGE! HIS CAR STALLED...AND THERE ISN'T ANY KIND OF SHOULDER OR AREA TO PULL YOUR CAR OVER! A SPEEDING CAB DRIVER SMASHED INTO THE BACK OF HIS CAR AND TIPPED HIM OVER ON HIS SIDE. THEN THE CAB DRIVER TOOK OFF! HE TOOK AWAY A GREAT SON, BROTHER,COUSIN,NEPHEW AND FRIEND!
IF THE NURSE THAT STOPPED TO HELP SHAWN HERE'S ABOUT THIS WEB SITE...PLEASE CONTACT ME, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!
SHAWN'S MOM
If you're not a St. Louisan and don't know.......AVOID this bridge like the plague for the next several months. They're repaving so there's one lane closed in each direction. Traffic backs up for several miles at the worst times. If you have to get downtown, use the MLK or the Eads. If you're going through the city to the south, use the I-255 bypass and the Jefferson Barracks Bridge (Exit 10 on the Illinois side). If you're going through on the north, use I-270 (Exit 20 on the Illinois side) and the Chain of Rocks Bridge. The PSB is BAD NEWS right about now.