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Started by bugo, May 03, 2015, 12:38:41 AM

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bugo

I know of an arch viaduct somewhere in the New Jersey area with some rooms inside the substructure. What other bridges have rooms inside them? Are there any bridges with apartments in the piers/abutments?


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The Weeks Bridge has a walkable steam tunnel inside.
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The anchorages of the ben franklin bridge in philly house unused trolley stations.
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Big John

Not sure if this counts, but the Tayco St bridge in Menasha WI has a museum in one of ite towers: http://fox11online.com/2014/05/19/bridge-museum-packs-big-history-in-a-small-space/

1995hoo

Key Bridge between Arlington County, Virginia, and the Georgetown neighborhood in DC has at least one room in the structure beneath the road surface. The local NBC affiliate explored it sometime within the past year; if I can find the report online, I'll edit this post to add the link.

Arlington Memorial Bridge in DC has two rooms on the underside that are there because it used to be a drawbridge (the draw span has not opened since around 1961, due mainly to other new fixed bridges nearby that make it pointless to operate a drawbridge there).


Edited to add: Here is the Channel 4 link for the Key Bridge video report– http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Key-Bridge-11-pm_Washington-DC-292074881.html
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Room? Pshaw. The Queensboro Bridge has an entire supermarket in it.

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Quote from: bugo on May 03, 2015, 12:38:41 AM
I know of an arch viaduct somewhere in the New Jersey area with some rooms inside the substructure. What other bridges have rooms inside them? Are there any bridges with apartments in the piers/abutments?
Are you thinking of this one?  I think this was featured in Weird NJ magazine - not exactly 'rooms' but if I recall they had a bunch of photos of a walkway of sorts that connects via arched openings the open segments above the arch but below the old track level.  As you can see, it gets a lot of visitors.
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.937527,-75.103379&spn=0.000004,0.00327&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.937416,-75.103749&panoid=bpfAHuoG6mQlxE7sWiRatw&cbp=12,201.28,,0,-1.86


The Nature Boy

Can we count covered bridges as one giant room?

Beeper1

The observation tower in the Penobscot Narrows Bridge on US-1 in Maine.

roadman65

The Jaques Cartier Bridge in Montreal has a whole building built under it on Notre Dame Island.  Yes its part of the bridge unlike some places like in NYC allow rights under the approaches for the Manhattan Bridge to put up a building that is not part of the bridge itself.

In the Jaques Cartier Bridge it is part of the structure and technically the roadbed is the roof of the building.  I do not know how many rooms exist, but at least two being it looks like it has at least two floors under it.
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Quote from: Big John on May 03, 2015, 08:02:09 AM
Not sure if this counts, but the Tayco St bridge in Menasha WI has a museum in one of ite towers: http://fox11online.com/2014/05/19/bridge-museum-packs-big-history-in-a-small-space/

Likewise the Michigan Avenue Bridge in Chicago.

http://www.bridgehousemuseum.org/

lepidopteran

This movable RR bridge over the Maumee River in Toledo, OH, has a pretty large building built in.  Since there are no nearby roads, you'll need to use the 3D feature in Google Maps to get a good look at it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6751008,-83.4871225,16z

The former I-280 bridge has a room for drawbridge-operations.  (I-280 now has its own high-level, cable-stayed span.)  Next upstream, the Cherry St. Bridge has two such kiosks.

bulldog1979

The Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River between St. Louis and East St. Louis has a station on each side for the MetroLink light rail lines that use the bridge. The station for Laclede's Landing is on the Missouri side within the structure of the bridge, and the East Riverfront station is on the Illinois side, also within the structure of the bridge.

roadman65

One of the viaducts under Riverside Drive in New York City has something under it as seen from NY 9A.  It has glass windows looking in at something.  I assume it must be a NYC Public Works garage or maintenance facility.  It is located within a mile south of the GWB and can be seen from Fort Lee across the Hudson River.
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The portal buildings along the bridge-tunnels of southeastern Virginia have maintenance offices in them: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.947187,-76.404769,3a,75y,329.79h,88.9t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sYwK5PYCipCJDKN1RYYI5oQ!2e0 

Dougtone

I went up four stories to the observation deck of the Tower Bridge in London. There's also exhibit rooms inside the bridge. No supermarkets, though.

rte66man

The Harahan Bridge over the Mississippi at Memphis has a haunted room at the east end:
http://abandonedplaces.livejournal.com/1601389.html
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