Champ Clark Bridge

39.456666666667 - 91.047777777778Koordinaten: 39 ° 27 ' 24 "N, 91 ° 2' 52 " W

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U.S. Highway 54

Mississippi River

The Champ Clark Bridge is a truss bridge made ​​of steel, lead the five fields across the Mississippi River and connects the city of Louisiana in Missouri with Illinois belonging to the eastern shore. Over the bridge leads the U.S. Highway 54 in the north-east to Pittsfield, where this highway has its endpoint.

The bridge is named after James Beauchamp Clark. This was 1911-1919 Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States and came from Bowling Green, Missouri.

The bridge is narrow and offers straight with their 6.1 m width geradeso space for two lanes. It was built in 1928 and was originally painted silver gray. In 1982, she received a dark green paint. 1999 and 2005 it was renovated by the Missouri Department of Transportation. In 2005, she received her current gray color.

The building is 697 m long and the main span over the main branch of the Mississippi River has a length of 128 m.