Clark Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Cable-stayed bridge over the Mississippi River on US 67 at Alton
- Status
- Open to four lanes of traffic
- History
- Opened January 4, 1994, replacing the Alton Bridge
- Builders
- - Figg & Muller Engineering Group
- Hanson Professional Services
- McCarthy Brothers Co.
- Midwest Foundation Corp.
- PCL Construction Enterprises
- Design
- Cable-stayed
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 755.9 ft.
Total length: 4,620.3 ft.
Deck width: 80.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.88583, -90.17278 (decimal degrees)
38°53'09" N, 90°10'22" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/745228/4307907 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Alton
- Inventory numbers
- IL 060-0255 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15490 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection
- Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 600
Update Log
- August 28, 2008: Updated by Kim Harvey
- July 4, 2008: Updated by Kim Harvey: added contractors
- February 5, 2007: Posted new photos
Comments
The "companion site" to the episode of Nova, about this bridge, is called Super Bridge (it aired in November 1997) and can be found at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/ which includes a clip.
The transcript can be read here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2416bridge.html
The DVD info is...
Item # WG27519
ISBN # 978-1-593757-42-7
UPC # 783421 27 5195
1997
...and you can buy it from WGBH in Boston:
If there is a NOVA DVD.....I want a copy too. I like a copy of any DVD out there documenting the Arthur Ravenel bridge in S.Carolina. I happen to have a postcard of the old "Grace" cantilever in a scrapbook I made as a child devoted to my favorite subject...."bridges". I enjoy this website as well.
There was quite an interesting TV special on PBS's NOVA all about the construction of this bridge. It was two hours almost lost into detail going from routing the river flow and tower construction to when the roadway was finished. This apparantly sparked interest in some young minds on bridge construction. I don't know if a DVD of this can be purchaced anywhere or if this special will ever air again. I recommend watching it. They also showed the demolition of the old Alton Bridge at the end.