South Omaha Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Missouri River on US 275/NE 92/IA 92 in Omaha
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Future prospects
- Replacement Bridge under construction
- History
- Built 1936; rehabilitated 1999
- Design
- Through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 525.3 ft.
Total length: 4,381.4 ft.
Deck width: 22.3 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.20743, -95.91403 (decimal degrees)
41°12'27" N, 95°54'50" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/255681/4565879 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Omaha South
- Inventory numbers
- IA 43570 (Iowa bridge number)
BH 23992 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 10/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 2.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 6,550
Sources
- Kim Harvey - ayrlieofremora [at] yahoo [dot] com
Comments
Yea, that is down below the Nebraska approach. I went to Manden park to take some shots of the main approach but the overgrowth was so bad you couldn't see the river. I couldn't find any other places that spoke to me about the bridge, since I'm not a bridge person really. So sorry, no main span pictures. However, I did get an awesome shot of the Bellevue Toll Bridge! the rest of my day on the river photo shoot don't really apply to this site, unless people wan't pictures of the casino. :o)
I have driven over this bridge a few times. The main span is a Cantilever through truss. The bridge has long deck truss approaches which are shown in the pictures. I believe that the pictures below were taken on the Nebraska side of the river.
That looks like a deck truss rather than a through truss.
Pictures
Work on a replacement bridge is well underway. See http://www.nebraskatransportation.org/projects/s-omaha-vet-mem/index.htm