23th Street viaduct

Infobox_Bridge
bridge_name= 23rd Street viaduct
official_name= Kansas Avenue Bridge
carries= 4 lanes of Kansas Avenue in Kansas, 4 lanes of 23rd Street in Missouri
crosses= Kansas River, West Bottoms, parking lot to Kemper Arena
maint=WyCo Unified Government and City of Kansas City, MissouriFact|date=March 2008
open= 1921
design= Warren Deck Truss
locale= Kansas City, Kansas, to Kansas City, Missouri

The 23rd Street viaduct is an automobile crossing of the Kansas River, and south of the Rock Island Bridge (Kansas City).It was built in 1921, and rebuilt in 2007.It is an elevated deck truss, and about 3,000 feet long.It survived the 1951, and 1993 Kansas City floods.It has two side approaches, one to the south, one to the north, and rises above the south part of the West Bottoms, and the parking lot to Kemper Arena.Its real name is the Kansas Avenue Bridge, but, because the primary half of it is in Missouri, it is called the 23rd Street viaduct more than the Kansas Avenue Bridge.

Crossings navbox
structure = Crossings
place = Kansas River
bridge = 23th Street viaduct
upstream = Highline Bridge (Kansas City)
upstream signs = "Kansas City Terminal Railway"
downstream = Rock Island Bridge (Kansas City)
downstream signs = "Rock Island Railroad"