Lake Street Bridge

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bridge_name= Lake Street Bridge

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carries=Four lanes of vehicle traffic (Lake Street in Minneapolis to Marshall Ave. in St. Paul)
crosses=Mississippi River
locale=Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
maint=Ramsey and Hennepin Counties
id=62082
design=Concrete arch
mainspan=555.5 feet
length=1,484 feet
width=76 feet
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below=66 feet
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open=1992
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The Lake Street Bridge is a reinforced concrete arch bridge that spans the Mississippi River between Minneapolis, Minnesota and St. Paul, Minnesota. It is oriented East-West and connects Lake Street in Minneapolis to Marshall Avenue in St. Paul. St. Paul residents often refer to it as the Marshall Avenue Bridge. The bridge was designed by Howard, Needles, Tammen, and Bergendoff.

over the Mississippi River.

When construction on the new bridge started in 1989, the builders built the first half of the new bridge while keeping the old bridge in service. Unfortunately, an accident ended up delaying construction. The falsework for one of the arches collapsed on April 24, 1990, causing the arch itself to collapse and killing construction worker Robert A. Moser. [cite web|url=http://www.ctlgroup.com/template_project.asp?topic=2351|title= Collapse of Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge|accessdate=2007-08-01|publisher=CTLGroup] Later, when it came time to demolish the old bridge, crews tried to take it down with explosives, but the first effort didn't bring the bridge down. It took another, more powerful batch of explosives to bring the old bridge down a few weeks later.

ee also

*List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River

Notes

References

* cite book
last = Costello
first = Mary Charlotte
authorlink =
coauthors =
year = 2002
title = Climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge, Volume Two: Minnesota
publisher = Adventure Publications
location = Cambridge, MN
id = ISBN 0-9644518-2-4
*cite web
last = Weeks
first = John
authorlink =
coauthors =
year = 2005
url = http://www.johnweeks.com/bridges/pages/ms11.html
title = Lake Street Bridge, St. Paul, MN
format =
work = The Bridges Of Minneapolis And St. Paul
publisher =
accessdate = 2006-04-18
accessyear =

External links

* [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hh:153:./temp/~pp_Qqqz::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record: Lake Street-Marshall Avenue Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN] (the old bridge)

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structure = Bridges
place = Mississippi River
bridge = Lake Street Bridge
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upstream = Short Line Bridge
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downstream = Intercity Bridge
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