1,310.75 feet (399.52 m) (current configuration) 1,978.75 feet (603.12 m) (as built)
Width
58 feet (18 m)
Longest span
780 feet (240 m)
Piers in water
1
Clearance below
66 feet (20 m) (current configuration) 73 feet (22 m) (as built)
History
Construction cost
$3,640,000[citation needed]
Opened
December 2, 1932
Statistics
Daily traffic
32,000[1]
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Designated
1979
Pittsburgh Landmark – PHLF
Designated
2001[2]
Location
The West End Bridge is a steel tied-arch bridge over the Ohio River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) below the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. It connects the West End to the Chateau neighborhood on the North Side of Pittsburgh.
The bridge was built from 1930 to 1932 primarily by the American Bridge Company (superstructure) and the Foundation Company (substructure).[3] It was the longest tied-arch bridge in the world when completed, and just the second bridge to use tied-arch technology over a long span, after the Tacony–Palmyra Bridge (1929) in Philadelphia.[4] The bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2001. As of 2016, the bridge and its surrounding approaches are undergoing some major reconstruction.
The Riverlife Task Force conducted a competition in the spring of 2006 to design a pedestrian bridge across the Ohio attached to the West End Bridge. The goal of the competition was to create an iconic architectural element which ties both shore neighborhoods with the waterfronts while eliminating the need for pedestrians to cross traffic lanes and empty lots. The winning design [5] was submitted by Endres Ware (now Endrestudio) in association with OLIN, Ammann & Whitney Archived 2006-02-03 at the Wayback Machine, Auerbach Glasow, and RWDI.
^"Holding down the fort". December 6, 2007. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
^"McKees Rocks and West End Steel Arches". Engineering News-Record. 106 (17). McGraw Hill Publications Company: 676–680. 23 April 1931. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
^"National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Form: West End Bridge". National Park Services. August 24, 1979. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
^"Firm's winning design for West End Bridge uses suspended walkways". post-gazette.com.
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