Market Street Bridge (Chattanooga)
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| Market Street Bridge | |
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| Official name | Chief John Ross Bridge |
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| Carries | 4 lanes of North Market St. |
| Crosses | Tennessee River |
| Locale | Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| Design | Double-leaf Bascule bridge |
| Longest span | 358.8 ft (109 m) |
| Total length | 1894.5 ft (577 m) |
| Width | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Opening date | 1917 |
| Destruction date | Currently closed for restoration; to reopen mid/late 2007 |
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The Market Street Bridge, officially referred to as the John Ross Bridge, is a bascule bridge that spans the Tennessee River between downtown Chattanooga and the Northshore District. It carries North Market Street (formerly designated as U.S. Highway 127), and was named in honor of Cherokee Chief John Ross. The bridge was completed in 1917 at a cost of USD$1 million, a huge sum of money at that time. In the mid 1970s, the southern terminus of US-127 was moved several miles north to the intersection of Dayton Avenue and Signal Mountain Boulevard in the nearby suburb of Red Bank. The bridge is currently closed for a long-overdue renovation, and is slated to reopen in 2007, when the bridge will turn 90 years old.
[edit] External links
- Old photograph from the Library of Congress
- Bridges of the Midwest
- Structurae.de bridge profile
- Restoration Project
| Bridges of the Tennessee River | |||
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| Upstream Walnut Street Bridge |
Market Street Bridge |
Downstream P.R. Olgiati Bridge  / TN 29 |
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