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The first bridge was a 690-foot five-span Howe truss bridge built in 1864 by the Lawrence Bridge Company at a cost of $47,000. It was the first bridge across the Kansas River west of Kansas City . It was operated as a toll bridge until 1879, when the Kansas Supreme Court revoked the company's charter and seized the bridge on behalf of the state.
The Interstate 435 Bridge is a girder bridge crossing of the Kansas River. It carries six lanes of Interstate 435 , three south, three north. It also crosses the Union Pacific Railroad tracks at the north side, and the BNSF Railway at the south.
With this act, Kansas City, Kansas, could issue bonds for the purpose of purchasing the Interstate Viaduct for free traffic, this was also done so street car service could be restored. The purchase cost $1,775,000 (equivalent to $27.8 million in 2023 [5]) in bargain money, half of the original cost to construct the viaduct. Of the money, Kansas ...
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A business owner with land on the Kansas River allowed — with Army Corps of Engineers’ permission — the subcontractor to dump the Docking rubble down the riverbanks to stabilize the bank ...
Demolition on Kansas City’s Buck O’Neil Bridge set social media aflutter Tuesday. The Missouri Department of Transportation posted video of the dramatic blast on X, formerly Twitter. It had ...
The K-99 Wamego Bridge is an automobile crossing of the Kansas River in Wamego, Kansas. It is the last Kansas River crossing until Manhattan 17 miles to the west. The bridge is 303.5 meters long. [1] The current structure is the second bridge at this location. The longest Marsh arch bridge ever built stood at this location from 1929 until 1990.
The 12th Street Bridge dates back to the early 1900s, when it was an iron bridge. [1] Swept away by a 1903 flood, it was rebuilt at the cost of $75,000. [1] A judge ordered the bridge rebuilt again in 1923 and it was reopened April 22, 1926. [1] A 1940 fire damaged the center span of the bridge and its wooden floor fell into the river. [1]