Goethals Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Cantilevered through truss bridge over Arthur Kill on I-278 in New York City
- Status
- Open to four lanes of traffic
- History
- Opened to traffic June 29, 1928
- Builder
- - John Alexander Low Waddell
- Design
- Cantilevered through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 336.0 ft.
Total length: 1,152.0 ft.
Deck width: 39.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 19.7 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.63617, -74.19704 (decimal degrees)
40°38'10" N, 74°11'49" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/567900/4498679 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Elizabeth
- Inventory numbers
- NY 5523059 (New York State bridge identification number)
BH 26715 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 08/2006)
- 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: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 50.5 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1990)
- 67,800