Vine Street Expressway Bridge

Vine Street Expressway Bridge
Vine Street Expressway Bridge, looking upstream
Vine Street Expressway Bridge (foreground) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (background)
Coordinates39°57′37″N 75°10′48″W / 39.9602°N 75.1800°W / 39.9602; -75.1800
Carries I-676 / US 30 (Vine Street Expressway)
CrossesSchuylkill River, Schuylkill River Trail, CSX Transportation tracks, North 24th Street ramp to East I-676/US 30
LocalePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Official nameVine Street Expressway Bridge
OwnerPennsylvania Department of Transportation
Maintained byPennDOT
ID number670676000206220
Characteristics
Designgirder and floorbeam system
MaterialSteel
Total length887.2 feet
Width83 feet
No. of spans3
Piers in water2
History
Constructed byPennDOT
Construction end1959
Opened1959, reconstructed 1989
Statistics
Daily traffic54,115 daily in 2008
Location
Map
Vine Street Expressway looking west across the bridge

The Vine Street Expressway Bridge is a bridge in Philadelphia, built in 1959 and reconstructed 1989 by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. It carries Interstate 676 (Vine Street Expressway) over the Schuylkill River across CSX Transportation tracks and the North 24th Street ramp.[1]

  1. ^ "Vine Street Expressway bridge". Historic Bridges of the United States. James Baughn. 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2010-08-18. Vine Street Expressway (I-676/US 30) westbound feeds into ramp for the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76) eastbound and JFK Boulevard exit at 30th Street, and into (I-76) westbound. (NBI 670676000206220)