Facts
- Overview
- Cantilevered through truss bridge over Schuylkill River on PA 291 (Penrose Avenue) in Philadelphia
- Location
- Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1949; rehabilitated 1984
- Design
- Cantilevered through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 680.2 ft.
Total length: 8,780.3 ft.
Deck width: 47.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.5 ft.
- Also called
- Penrose Avenue Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.91500, -75.21333 (decimal degrees)
39°54'54" N, 75°12'48" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/481767/4418344 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Philadelphia
- Inventory numbers
- PA 67 0291 0060 0000 (Pennsylvania bridge number)
BH 31529 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 05/2008)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 44.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2008)
- 53,380