Gray's Ferry Bridge
Vehicle and railroad bridges in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gray's Ferry Bridge (more recently, Grays Ferry Bridge) has been the formal or informal name of several floating bridges and four permanent ones that have carried highway and rail traffic over the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. The bridge today is a four-lane divided highway bridge, built in 1976, that carries Grays Ferry Avenue from the Grays Ferry neighborhood on the east bank, over the river and the Northeast Corridor railroad tracks, to the Southwest Philadelphia neighborhood of Kingsessing.
Grays Ferry Avenue Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 39.9411°N 75.205°W / 39.9411; -75.205 |
Carries | Grays Ferry Avenue |
Crosses | Schuylkill River, Northeast Corridor |
Locale | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Owner | State Highway Agency |
Maintained by | State Highway Agency |
Preceded by | University Avenue Bridge |
Followed by | Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Bridge No. 1 |
Characteristics | |
Design | Stringer/multi-beam or girder |
Material | Steel continuous |
Total length | 1,482 feet (452 m) |
History | |
Construction start | 1976 |
Opened | 1976 |
Replaces | 1901 Grays Ferry Bridge |
Statistics | |
Daily traffic | 9,625 (in 2011) |
Location | |
References | |
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In 1902, rail traffic was shifted to the adjacent Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Bridge No. 1, which was demolished in 2018. Its pilings support an under-construction bridge for use by cyclists and pedestrians traveling the Schuylkill River Trail.