Valley City Eagle Bridges | |
Carries: | 4 lanes of [1] |
Crosses: | Illinois River |
Maint: | Illinois Department of Transportation |
Design: | Concrete box girder twin bridges |
Traffic: | 4,325 |
Complete: | 1988 |
Open: | 1992 |
The Valley City Eagle Bridges is a set of bridges that carry Interstate 72 and U.S. Route 36 across the Illinois River. The bridge is located near Valley City, Illinois, the smallest municipality in the state.[2]
The bridges are post tensioned cast-in-place concrete box girder bridges.Each bridge has two lanes of travel on a 39-foot deck. The bridge has roughly 7,500 travelers per day.
The bridges were completed in 1988. The highway was not completed until 1992, when Highway 36 was rerouted onto I-72 and the older Florence Bridge began carrying Illinois Routes 100 and 106.