OFFICIAL NAME:
South Fremont Street Bridge
OTHER DESIGNATION:
Ohio River Boulevard over South Fremont St
LOCATION:
Bellevue
USGS 7.5" Topo Quad - UTM Coordinates:
Pittsburgh West - Zone 17; 0579 4489
CARRIES:
Ohio River Boulevard [PA65]
BETWEEN:
-- Riverview Av
-- Spring Av
CROSSES:
-- South Fremont St (closed)
-- stream
-- Carson St
TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION / DESIGN:
Deck open spandrel concrete arch
LENGTH OF MAIN SPAN:
180 ft (1 arch span, plus approaches)
TOTAL LENGTH (including longest elevated ramp):
382 ft
HEIGHT OF DECK:
YEAR ERECTED / ENGINEER:
1930, Allegheny County
ADDITIONAL INFO:
In 1980, the metal builder's plaques were removed from the railings and mounted on the concrete barriers on each side:
ALLEGHENY COUNTY
SOUTH FREMONT STREET BRIDGE
ERECTED 1930
COMMISSIONERS
JOS. G. ARMSTRONG, CHAIRMAN E. V. BABCOCK CHAS. C. McGOVERN
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
DIRECTOR NORMAN F. BROWN CHIEF ENGINEER V. R. COVELL
CONTRACTOR BOOTH & FLINN COMPANY
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from the PennDOT Historic Bridges Survey:
"The bridge carries a 4 lane highway and 2 sidewalks over a local street on the north bank of the Ohio River in a setting dominated by modern, franchise commercial development and scattered highly altered early-20th century buildings. It was built as part of the Ohio River Boulevard, the highway designed to speed traffic to the McKees Rocks bridge. The highway has lost integrity due to alterations to its original geometry and roadside features as well as extensive modern development along it. Neither the highway nor the setting have historic district potential.
The 1930, 382'-long, reinforced concrete, ribbed, open spandrel arch bridge has a 180'-long main span and slab approach spans supported on concrete abutments and concrete column and cap bents. About 1980 the bridge was widened by the removal of the original cantilevered deck sections and balustrades and placement of wider cantilevered deck sections with plain bracketed supports and safety shape barriers at the roadway curbs. The sidewalks are finished with chain link fence pedestrian barriers. Most of the columns have been shotcreted. Neither the bridge nor its setting and context are historically or technologically significant due to extensive alterations."
FIELD CHECKED:
14-Aug-2004
INFO SOURCES:
field check, PennDOT Historic Bridges Survey
