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Title: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: Alps on December 08, 2011, 08:27:45 PM
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.
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: NE2 on December 08, 2011, 09:19:02 PM
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
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: xonhulu on December 08, 2011, 10:03:58 PM
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.
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: vdeane on December 09, 2011, 11:50:18 AM
The Colvin St bridge over I-490 is a pedestrian bridge.  Granted, Colvin St was continuous before I-490 was built.
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: Alps on December 09, 2011, 05:29:33 PM
Hahaha, Failing. I was going for bridges a bit more notable than highway overpasses...
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: Scott5114 on December 10, 2011, 10:13:06 AM
Quote from: xonhulu on December 08, 2011, 10:03:58 PM
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...
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: SteveG1988 on December 12, 2011, 12:49:40 PM
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.

Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: Duke87 on December 12, 2011, 10:45:07 PM
As a reverse of the original situation, there is a Bridge Street in Lower Manhattan which does not have a bridge.
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: NE2 on December 12, 2011, 10:56:54 PM
Quote from: Duke87 on December 12, 2011, 10:45:07 PM
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) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_Street_(Manhattan))
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: roadman65 on January 08, 2012, 08:49:40 PM
Is not the pedestrian footbridge over the Harlem River in New York called the 104th Street Bridge?
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: empirestate on January 09, 2012, 12:23:22 AM
Quote from: deanej on December 09, 2011, 11:50:18 AM
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.
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: Duke87 on January 09, 2012, 06:13:28 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on January 08, 2012, 08:49:40 PM
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.
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: roadman65 on January 09, 2012, 09:11:51 PM
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)
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: 1995hoo on January 10, 2012, 05:40:37 PM
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.
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: roadman65 on January 10, 2012, 07:48:09 PM
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.
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: bugo on January 11, 2012, 05:34:55 PM
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.
Title: Re: Road named bridges... with no road
Post by: pianocello on January 22, 2012, 02:14:23 PM
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.