Quincy Memorial Bridge
Address is taken from a point 535 yards away.
Quincy Memorial Bridge carries a footpath over the Mississippi (Upper River) between Torquay and Thanet.
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.
| Mississippi - Des Moines Junction | 37.25 miles | |
| Canton Lock No 20 | 17.82 miles | |
| Mississippi - Wyaconda Junction | 11.12 miles | |
| Quincy Rail Bridge | 1.14 miles | |
| Bayview Bridge | 0.20 miles | |
| Quincy Memorial Bridge | ||
| Quincy Lock No 21 | 2.33 miles | |
| Wabash Bridge | 17.11 miles | |
| Mark Twain Memorial Bridge | 17.48 miles | |
| Saverton Lock No 22 | 26.94 miles | |
| Mississippi - Salt Junction | 44.82 miles | |
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The Quincy Memorial Bridge is a truss bridge over the Mississippi River in Quincy, Illinois. It brings eastbound U.S. Highway 24 into the city of Quincy from Missouri. It was built in 1930, initially as a toll bridge, and remains structurally sound.
Building of the bridge began in 1928 by the Kelly-Atkinson Company. It was completed in 1930, with the first car crossing the bridge on May 19th of that year on an official inspection trip. The original toll for the bridge was 50 cents, by 1945 the city had paid the outstanding bonds which financed the bridge's construction, and the fares were eliminated.
In 1986, to serve additional traffic volumes crossing the Mississippi River into Quincy, the Illinois Department of Transportation constructed the Bayview Bridge just to the north of the Memorial Bridge. Westbound traffic was then routed onto the Bayview Bridge, while eastbound traffic was routed onto the Memorial Bridge.
Since 2012, demolition and replacement of the historic Memorial Bridge with a more modern one is being considered by the Illinois Department of Transportation to cope with increased traffic demands on the aging bridge.