Paseo Bridge
Paseo Bridge | |
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| File:Paeseo Bridge 18July2008.jpg The bridge in 2008 | |
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| Carries | 4 lanes of File:I-29.svgFile:I-35.svgFile:US 71.svg I-29 / I-35 / US 71 |
| Crosses | Missouri River |
| Locale | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Official name | Paseo Bridge |
| Maintained by | MoDOT |
| ID number | 6674 |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Suspension |
| Longest span | 616.0 feet |
| History | |
| Opened | August 13, 1954[1] |
| Closed | November 19, 2010 |
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The Paseo Bridge was a suspension bridge over the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri. Before being replaced by the Christopher S. Bond Bridge, it carried Interstates 29 and 35 and U.S. Route 71 over the river. It was named for The Paseo, a boulevard that connected with the bridge to the south, and continues to do so with the Bond Bridge.
History
[edit | edit source]The bridge was built in 1954[2] and was rehabilitated in 1984 and 2005. According to the Missouri Department of Transportation, the bridge handled 95,000 vehicles a day before its retirement,[3] making it the most used bridge in Kansas City. The Paseo Bridge also served as the main connection between Kansas City and the Northland (the area of Kansas City north of the Missouri River). In its early history it was a toll bridge and the toll was 10 cents per trip.
At the time it was built, it was the longest self anchored suspension bridge ever constructed worldwide and one of a small number of such bridges.
MoDOT replaced the bridge in 2010 with the Christopher S. Bond Bridge. Construction of the new cable-stayed bridge began in April 2008 and was completed several months ahead of schedule. The Paseo Bridge was open to traffic during the construction, gradually shifting the flow onto the new Bond Bridge until all lanes of the new bridge were open. Vehicle traffic across the Paseo Bridge ceased on November 19, 2010, and demolition work on the bridge began shortly thereafter.[4]
See also
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- List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Missouri
- List of crossings of the Missouri River
References
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External links
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- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Paseo Bridge
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MO-116, "Paseo Bridge, Spanning Missouri River on Interstate 29/35, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO", 19 photos, 75 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
- Suspension bridges in Missouri
- Bridges in Kansas City, Missouri
- Bridges completed in 1954
- Bridges over the Missouri River
- Historic American Engineering Record in Missouri
- Road bridges in Missouri
- Interstate 29
- Interstate 35
- U.S. Route 71
- Bridges on the Interstate Highway System
- Bridges of the United States Numbered Highway System
- Self-anchored suspension bridges