• Source: Bridge Street Bridge (Newark)

bridge" target="_blank">Bridge Street bridge" target="_blank">Bridge is a swing bridge" target="_blank">bridge over the Passaic River connecting Newark and Harrison, New Jersey. It is the 10th bridge" target="_blank">bridge from the river's mouth at Newark Bay and is 5.7 miles (9.2 km) upstream from it. Carrying vehicular traffic, the roadway is designated County Route 508.

The span is a rim-bearing Pratt thru truss swing span supported on ashlar substructure with concrete caps originally built by the American bridge" target="_blank">Bridge Company. It opened in 1913 and underwent significant rehabilitation in 1981. It is listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places (ID#3093) The bridge" target="_blank">bridge was re-lamped in 2012. The bridge" target="_blank">bridge's electric motor was damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, requiring replacement.
Like the other vehicular swing bridges in Newark, the Jackson Street bridge" target="_blank">Bridge and the Clay Street bridge" target="_blank">Bridge, it crosses over the tidal navigable portion of the river. and is required to open with 4-hour notice. The swing bridges of Newark are expected to open as much as 10 times a day during a massive clean-up of the Passaic starting in 2019 to allow barges to move contaminated sludge dredged from the river bottom raising concerns about their reliability.
As of 2016 studies were underway to study its replacement.




History


The site of bridge" target="_blank">Bridge Street bridge" target="_blank">Bridge has been a river crossing since the colonial era. In 1790 the state legislature decided that "public good would be served by a 64 feet (20 m) wide road from Paulus Hook to the Newark Courthouse". By 1795 a bridge" target="_blank">bridge over the Hackensack 950 feet (290 m) long and another over the Passaic 492 feet (150 m) long were built creating an uninterrupted toll road connection. The road between them is known as the Newark Turnpike.




See also


List of crossings of the Lower Passaic River
List of bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey




References






External links


Media related to bridge" target="_blank">Bridge Street bridge" target="_blank">Bridge (Newark) at Wikimedia Commons

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