John T. Loughran Bridge

Infobox Bridge
bridge_name=John T. Loughran Bridge

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caption=Bridge seen from Broadway in Kingston
official_name=
carries=Four lanes of US 9W
crosses=Rondout Creek
locale=Kingston-Port Ewen, New York
maint=New York State Department of Transportation
id=000000001069749
design=Steel continuous truss
mainspan=973 feet (295 m)cite web |url=http://nationalbridges.com/nbi_record.php?StateCode=36&struct=000000001069749 |title=National Bridge Inventory |accessdate=2007-08-17.]
length=
width=22 m (73 ft)
height=
load=75.5 tons (68.6 tonnes)
clearance=
below=56 feet (17 m)
traffic=15056
begin=1977
complete=1979
open=1979
closed=
toll=
map_cue=
map_

map_text=Loughran Bridge highlighted in red
map_width=200px
coordinates=coor dms|41|55|06|N|73|58|51|W
lat=
long=The John T. Loughran Bridge carries US 9W over Rondout Creek between Kingston and Port Ewen, New York, USA. It also crosses over Ferry Street on the Kingston side. It is located just downriver from the historic Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridge, which carried 9W until the Loughran Bridge was constructed. It is just upriver from where the Rondout empties into the Hudson River.

It is a continuous truss bridge with four spans, totalling 973 feet (295 m) in length. In 1979, upon its opening, it was dedicated and named for John T. Loughran, a Kingston native whose judicial career was capped by his service as chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest judicial position, from 1945 until his death in 1953.

Its construction required the demolition of a few blocks of the West Strand neighborhood on the north side. This rallied preservationists to get the decaying area, once Kingston's waterfront in the days of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, designated a historic district. It was later listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today many of the buildings have been renovated and the area is a popular destination for visitors to the city.

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