N. Lake Shore Drive
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Bridge
Original railing detail (1930)
(Courtesy of the Chicago Department of Transportation - Division of Engineering)
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- Dedicated 10/5/1937
- Designers: Strauss Engineering Company and Hugh Young
- Classification: Double Deck (Auto/Auto); Deck Trusses
- Clear Span: 220 feet
- Trunnion-to-Trunnion Span: 264 feet
- Width: 108 feet
- Leaf Weight: 6,420 tons
- Height above the Water: 25 feet
- Construction Cost in 1937: $2.6 million
- Average Daily Vehicular Traffic (2006): 112,000
- Annual Lifts (2006): 49
- Last Rehabilitated: 1987
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