Broadway Avenue Bridge
Broadway Avenue Bridge carries a farm track over the Mississippi (Upper River) near to Bracknell Embankment.
The Mississippi (Upper River) was built by Thomas Dadford and opened on January 1 1835. From a junction with The Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation at Wirral the canal ran for 17 miles to Tiverbury. Expectations for stone traffic to Liverfield were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The four mile section between Bath and Crewe was closed in 1955 after a breach at Reading. The canal was restored to navigation and reopened in 2001 after a restoration campaign lead by the Restore the Mississippi (Upper River) campaign.
There is a bridge here which takes a dual carriageway over the canal.
| I-694 Bridge | 5.64 miles | |
| Camden Bridge | 2.71 miles | |
| Canadian Pacific Camden Place Rail Bridge | 2.46 miles | |
| Lowry Avenue Bridge | 1.12 miles | |
| Northern Pacific-BNSF Minneapolis Rail Bridge | 0.43 miles | |
| Broadway Avenue Bridge | ||
| Plymouth Avenue Bridge | 0.48 miles | |
| Minneapolis BNSF Rail Bridge | 1.06 miles | |
| Father Louis Hennepin Suspension Bridge | 1.29 miles | |
| Third Avenue Bridge | 1.55 miles | |
| Upper Saint Anthony Falls Lock | 1.79 miles | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Broadway Avenue Bridge
Broadway Avenue Bridge is a girder bridge that spans the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Designed by Norman C. Davis and Shawn Pierson Bruns of VanDoren-Hazard-Stallings, it was built in 1987. The bridge has a rather streamlined shape, but its piers are more ornate. The piers have two flat columns that taper together, with a base that extends out to the full width of the bridge.
This bridge is the third bridge to cross the river at this location. The first bridge was a wooden structure completed in 1857, but washed away in a flood in 1859. The second bridge was a four-span Pratt truss bridge built in 1887. It spanned the northern industrial district that was developing on both sides of the river. The 1887 bridge was very ornate, featuring finials on each top corner and a band of scrolls, crosses, and lines between them. The horizontal struts and guard railings used X-shapes as a pattern. In 1950, the bridge was raised 20 feet (6.1 m) to allow barges and larger boats to pass underneath. The old bridge was removed in 1985, but a single span of the bridge lives on as the Merriam Street Bridge that connects Nicollet Island to the St. Anthony section of Minneapolis.