Wood Bridges on Public Roads
Ragnarkar
some sort (e.g. US Highway, major state highway, etc.) I've seen countless
instances of these on, say, highways into parks but the only one I can think
of used by everyday traffic was in Rolla, MO (that was 20 years ago.. dunno
if it's still there.) Pictures would be nice too..
Sherman L. Cahal
Boyd county, KY built one about 5 years ago and just recently completed
a new wooden bridge only a few months back on their county roads...
US 71
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There used to be one on AR311 south of Blue Eye, but it was replaced about 2
years ago.
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Mapmikey
MC Pee Pants
This bridge was a part of AR 370 until April of this year:
http://bridges.midwestplaces.com/ar/polk/boggy-creek/
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H.B. Elkins
There are all sorts of these on various county highways in Kentucky, but I can
only think of two on state highways.
KY 89 at the Jackson-Rockcastle county line, and KY 599 near the KY 613
intersection in Powell County.
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Michael G. Koerner
The ramps at the US 16/16A 'Y' interchange near Keystone, SD are wood-framed.
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David Norris
The last one I remember ODOT building in our area is on SR 551 over PeePee Creek at the upper end of Lake White
(yes, Tim, the name is PeePee Creek)
http://www.dot.state.oh.us/sfn/images/Dist.9/pik/6603165b.jpg
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Mike Tantillo
mapm...@gmail.com wrote:
> IIRC, NC 12 on Ocracoke Island has small wood bridges....
THey are paved with asphalt though.
Virginia has a bunch of wooden bridges on its state routes mostly
secondaries with 5xx, 6xx, etc. numbers. But some of those
"secondaries" get pretty large amounts of traffic. I was surprised to
find a few old one-lane wooden bridges in Fairfax County....probably
remnants of older times when these were actually country lanes.
Interestingly, some one-lane bridges in Fairfax actually go the extra
mile in terms of traffic control devices. Whereas a one laner in the
middle of nowhere might get a yellow diamond "one lane bridge" sign,
these get a stop bar, a yield sign with an "oncoming traffic" plate
underneath, and I believe some form of suggestion that you alternate
direction....ie, someone from your side goes, then the other side, then
your side, etc. Most people I observed tended to cheat though, and
followed other vehicles through...sometimes as many as 5 or 6 before
someone with a little couteousy stopped to give oncoming traffic a
turn. Guess thats what happens when you combine one lane wooden
bridges with DC drivers!
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> Mapmikey
Chris Bessert
Excellent idea..
Well, I started typing up a post to answer this question, but it ended
up turning into a whole new page on the Michigan Highways website
( http://www.michiganhighways.org ) regarding the M-26 Eagle River
Timber Bridge, constructed in 1991 in the Keweenaw Peninsula community
of Eagle River (includes photo):
http://www.michiganhighways.org/indepth/M-26_timberbridge.html
Also, someone has a nice, high-quality photo of this timber structure
in their webshots album:
Med - http://image06.webshots.com/6/6/15/12/79461512iLLDOq_ph.jpg
Lg - http://image06.webshots.com/6/6/15/12/79461512iLLDOq_fs.jpg
Of course now I have (yet another) reason to make another trip up to
the Keweenaw someday to get my own shots of this bridge... :^)
Later,
Chris
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Dan Vincent
use Alex Svirsky's bridge database tool you can look them up.
There's a couple state roads that run on a bridge principally made of
wood.
Pete from Boston
MA 140 used to run through the center of Franklin, MA on a
wooden-planked bridge over the commuter rail tracks, but I haven't been
over it in ten years or so, and hence don't know if it's still like
that.
Pete from Boston
DanF
in Fairfax County, I remember ones on SR 636/Hooes Rd between
Silverbrook Rd and VA 123 and on SR 643/Lee Chapel Rd between SR 7100
and VA 123, but were replaced in the 1990s. There are some one-lane
tunnels too, one somewhere in Newington and one on SR 611/Colchester
Rd.
mapm...@gmail.com
163 (5 lane route narrowed to 1)
There used to be a one-lane tunnel under I-95 just south of this exit
for SR 600, which I'd guess was closed a long time ago (this part of
I-95 had been around as VA 350 back to at least 1950), but was probably
still walkable until the HOV lanes were built in the median.
This same SR 600 had a wood one-lane bridge over the RR near this
location, which was destroyed by an overweight truck. It was rebuilt,
then not too long afterwards, barricaded off (can be seen from I-95 SB
no problem)
The Newington one you mention is on the Newington Rd, I believe.
There is a two-lane (okay...maybe 1.5 lane) wood bridge in Albermarle
County used by SR 616 near Keswick, which is signed from VA 22 as a
shortcut to I-64 West.
Also, Spotsylvania SR 620 has 2 wooden bridges (1.5 lanes wide...SR 620
is gravel on this section)
More one lane bridges I know still in use:
Prince William SR 646 Aden Rd just east of VA 28
Culpeper SR 620 about 2 miles west of Kelly's Ford (this one is a
concrete early 20's style - VERY narrow)
Fauquier SR 610 just west of SR 806 (old VA 233), also a 1920's
concrete model
Culpeper SR 647 west of Lignum (1920's concrete)
F-185 west of Marshall has a 1-lane 20's bridge that was VA 17-55 until
early 60's when I-66 came through.
I know I've seen others...not coming to me
Pete Jenior
This is a rural county that is in the process of being suburbanized by
sprawl from Cincinnati and Dayton. I think there are 400-500 bridges that
we maintain, and I'd say maybe a dozen or so have a wood deck (some of those
may have asphalt over the wood; I'm not sure). There are also a few (2-3?)
that have wood beams. None of these are on "major" roads, but consider how
many hundreds of similar counties there are and you get an idea of how many
bridges might be out there.
Until a year or two ago there was a wooden arch bridge (longest in the
world) over an arm of Lake of the Woods in Sioux Narrows, Ontario. It was
on HWY 71, which is the only road in the area, has trucks on it, etc.
-Pete