Road named bridges... with no road

[Alps]

My next update will have the Park Avenue Bridge in NYC. It's a railroad bridge, never once used by automotive traffic, but it happens to be the rail line down the middle of Park Ave. What other bridges are named for roads but don't carry a road over it? Subcategory: bridges named for a road that no longer goes over the bridge.

[NE2]

There are a lot of subway tunnels in NYC that are named for the street on one end. Another bridge in New York: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livingston_Avenue_Bridge

[xonhulu]

There's a pedestrian bridge over I-5 in north Portland named the Failing St Bridge, as it lines up with that street on both sides of I-5.

[vdeane]

The Colvin St bridge over I-490 is a pedestrian bridge.  Granted, Colvin St was continuous before I-490 was built.

[Alps]

Hahaha, Failing. I was going for bridges a bit more notable than highway overpasses...

[Scott5114]

There's a pedestrian bridge over I-5 in north Portland named the Failing St Bridge, as it lines up with that street on both sides of I-5.

It is failing at being a street...

[SteveG1988]

Do bridges named for things that no longer exist count?

For example in Philadelphia you have a major amtrak/septa bridge named: "Pennsylvania Railroad, Connecting Railway Bridge"  over the Schuylkill River

PRR has not existed since the early 70s.

Or Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Bridge at West Falls which is named after a RR that changed it's name in 1924, and then closed in 1976 after it merged with conrail.


A alternate take on this would be a road named for what it used to connect to, for example NJ Route 324 is named "ferry St" due to it being the old route of 322 for the ferry.

[Duke87]

As a reverse of the original situation, there is a Bridge Street in Lower Manhattan which does not have a bridge.

[NE2]

As a reverse of the original situation, there is a Bridge Street in Lower Manhattan which does not have a bridge.

Not anymore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_Street_(Manhattan)

[roadman65]

Is not the pedestrian footbridge over the Harlem River in New York called the 104th Street Bridge?

[empirestate]

The Colvin St bridge over I-490 is a pedestrian bridge.  Granted, Colvin St was continuous before I-490 was built.

So is the Colby Street bridge, also over I-490. And it was never continuous, as that part of 490 was the Erie Canal originally.

[Duke87]

Is not the pedestrian footbridge over the Harlem River in New York called the 104th Street Bridge?

I've always referred to it and heard it referred to as the "Ward's Island Footbridge".

That is, if people give it a name at all. I more frequently hear it referred to as "that pedestrian bridge" or something similar.

[roadman65]

The Wards Island Bridge, also known as the 103rd Street Footbridge,

The first line of the Wickopedia article about the bridge I was off by one number (or block)

[1995hoo]

The 11th Street Bridge in Southeast DC does not actually carry 11th Street (although 11th Street may be extended over the new "local" bridge that's not yet open–I don't know whether they'll do that or give it some other name such as extending MLK Avenue). The bridge currently carries I-695.

Nor does the 14th Street Bridge in Southwest DC carry 14th Street; it carries I-395 and US-1.

[roadman65]

The Paseo Bridge in Kansas City carries I-35 (and maybe I-29)  over the Missouri River and it is named after a street to the south of it that exits off the freeway in a straight line with the bridge.  I do not think the I-35 carries this street name at all.

[bugo]

The I-44 Arkansas River bridge is known as the "51st Street Bridge."  The current bridge never carried 51st Street, although the original bridge carried it.

[pianocello]

Cedar Street Bridge over the Illinois River in Peoria-E. Peoria, IL. The road is called MacArthur Hwy (formerly Cedar St) on the Peoria side, but it doesn't have a name on the E. Peoria side as far as I know.