W. Washington Boulevard
Equipment Elevation drawing (1908)
(Courtesy of the Chicago Department of Transportation - Division of Engineering)
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- Dedicated: 5/26/1913
- Designers: Thomas G. Pihlfeldt, Alexander von Babo, Edward Bennett
- Classification: Single Deck; Pony Trusses
- Clear Span: 171 feet
- Trunnion-to-Trunnion Span: 197 feet
- Width: 57 feet
- Leaf Weight: 1,000 - 2,000 tons (est)
- Height above the Water: 21 feet
- Contruction Cost in 1913: $238,288
- Average Daily Foot Traffic (1999): 9,279
- Average Daily Vehicular Traffic (2006): 6,850
- Annual Lifts (2006): 39
- Last Rehabilitated: 1996
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