Ellsworth Street Bridge
44.6393 - 123.106635Koordinaten: 44 ° 38 ' 21.5 "N, 123 ° 6' 23.9 " W
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The Ellsworth Street Bridge is a highway bridge over the Willamette River in Albany, Oregon. It was built in 1925 and carries the two-lane, eastward lane of U.S. Highway 20 over the river ( the westward traffic runs over the Lyon Street Bridge ). The 332.5 m long steel truss bridge was designed by Conde McCullough and opened to traffic in 1926.
History
1887 was built in Albany a bridge over the Willamette River, which served the Corvallis and Eastern. The state began in 1925 with the construction of a road bridge in the city. The building was designed by the working in the Department of Transportation bridge planners Conde McCullough and built by the Union Bridge Company of Portland. The truss structure of steel was completed in 1926.
With the opening of the building of the highway from Albany to Corvallis was one continuous section. The finished building was called the Albany Bridge. In 1973, the eastern neighboring Lyon Street Bridge was built to increase the capacity of the road connection to two lanes in each direction. The Ellsworth Street Bridge in 1971 and 2002 repaired. In 2004, drove the daily average 9850 vehicles over the bridge.
Details
The building at the track mile 10.44 is classified with a utilization rate of 53.8 % as functionally obsolete. The two lanes refer to the eastward movement of U.S. Route 20 in the center of Albany. The main span of the bridge is formed by four continuous steel beams, each of which has a length of 61 m. The Ellsworth Street Bridge is a total of 332.5 m long and 8 m wide. The distance between the water surface and the lower edge of the bridge is about 7.5 m. The side margins of concrete corresponding to the box girder construction. The green painted bridge has decorated railings and piers at each portal of concrete. It is one of the few steel girder bridges that were built in Oregon, while McCullough was in office and is one of the last mehrspännigen steel girder bridges that are still in operation in the state.