W. Adams Street
Bridge Plan and Elevation (1925)
(Courtesy of the Chicago Department of Transportation - Division of Engineering)
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- Dedicated: 8/26/1927
- Designers: Thomas G. Pihlfeldt, Donald Becker, Edward Bennett
- Classification: Single Deck; Deck Trusses
- Clear Span: 173 feet
- Trunnion-to-Trunnion Span: 199 feet
- Width: 64 feet
- Leaf Weight: 1,000 tons (est)
- Height above the Water: 16 feet
- Construction Cost in 1927: $1.2 million
- Average Daily Foot Traffic (1999): 32,739
- Average Daily Vehicular Traffic (2006): 9,300
- Annual Lifts (2006): 39
- Last Rehabilitated: 1996
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