Cedar Street Bridge Explained

Bridge Name:Cedar Street Bridge
Carries:4 lanes of ILL 8/ILL 116
Crosses:Illinois River
Locale:Peoria, Illinois and East Peoria, Illinois
Maint:Illinois Department of Transportation
Id:000090003019685
Design:Truss arch bridge
Length:3,750 ft (1,143 m)[1]
Width:40 ft (15 m)
Load:53.1 metric tons
Below:61.7 feet (18.8 m)
Traffic:12,200[2]
Open:1932
Coordinates:40.6778°N -89.6005°W

The Cedar Street Bridge carries Illinois Route 8 and Illinois Route 116 over the Illinois River. The bridge is a steel arch design that rises approximately 70 to 80feet above the surface of the river. The name of the bridge comes from the original name of its street on the Peoria side of the river; the street itself is now called MacArthur Highway, while the bridge is still referred to as Cedar Street.

Completed in 1933, it received the Award of Merit plaque of the American Institute of Steel Construction as the most beautiful bridge in class A (costing more than $1,000,000) for that year.[3]

External links

Notes and References

  1. National Bridge Inventory. Via http://nationalbridges.com/ .
  2. Web site: Getting Around Illinois: Average Annual Daily Traffic . https://web.archive.org/web/20060504013114/http://www.gettingaroundillinois.com/default.aspx?ql=aadt . dead . 2006-05-04 . 2003 . 2007-03-30 . Illinois Department of Transportation.
  3. Illinois, a Descriptive and Historical Guide. Federal Writers' Project (1939) Page 363