Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over an unnamed creek on Pryor Road in Kansas City
- Location
- Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built ca. 1910
- Design
- Pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 37.0 ft.
Total length: 127.9 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.90500, -94.41167 (decimal degrees)
38°54'18" N, 94°24'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/377595/4307181 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 47 N., R. 31 W., Sec. 7
- USGS topographic map
- Lees Summit
- Inventory numbers
- MO 048-243502.3 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 20025 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21709 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 03/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 22.7 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
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Comments
Pryor Road Bridge
the swinging bridge you are talking about still exists. It is in the swope park zoo.
Pryor Road Bridge
I'm searching for information on an old bridge in Swope Park. I believe it spans a part of the Blue River. In the 1940's it was known as a "swinging bridge" and was part of the trail used to walk from the end of the streetcar line to the lagoon and swimming pool in the park.
I see nothing that sounds like it in this Historic Bridges of the Midwest website. Would appreciate any information on it. As I recall, it was only about 10 to 12 feet wide, steel construction with wooden deck. Warnings were posted not to swing it...but when five or six people "marched" on it in step with one another, it did swing.