South Street Bridge (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

South Street Bridge is a bridge that was reconstructed in 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

South Street Bridge
South Street Bridge (foreground) with Cira Centre South (background) in Philadelphia
Coordinates	39°56′30″N 75°11′52″W
Carries	South Street
Crosses	Schuylkill River
Locale	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Official name	South Street Bridge
Owner	City of Philadelphia
Maintained by	Driscoll Construction Company, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Preceded by	1920 span
Characteristics
Material	Steel, concrete
Total length	753 ft (230 m)[1]
Width	82.7 ft (25.2 m)[1]
Longest span	144 ft (44 m)[1]
No. of spans	7[1]
Clearance below	13.1 ft (4.0 m)[1]
History
Designer	H2L2 Architects/Planners, LLC
Constructed by	Driscoll Construction Company, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Construction end	2010[1]
Location

History

The original South Street Bridge was a crumbling bridge dating back to 1920.

From 2003 to until its closure in 2009, pieces of the eroding bridge concrete would fall into the Schuylkill River and onto the Schuylkill Expressway. On November 6, 2010, the original bridge was completely torn down and replaced.^[2]

Architectural features

South Street Bridge is notable landmark in Philadelphia as drivers along the Schuylkill Expressway can see images on its glowing mesh. Bruce Chamberlain said that the mesh "... gave the bridge a soft glow at night, while maintaining the openness desired by the design team and community." ^[3] The lights stopped working in 2017, and haven't been up since then.^[4] Stimulus funding also subsidized connections from the new bridge to a "boardwalk" on the Schuylkill River Trail, which passes under the bridge.^[5]

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  South Street Bridge platform

See also

• List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
• List of crossings of the Schuylkill River