Falls Bridge
by Andrew Dinh
Title
Falls Bridge
Artist
Andrew Dinh
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The Falls Bridge is a steel Pratt truss bridge that connects Kelly Drive at Calumet Street with Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. The 556-foot-long (169 m) bridge was built in 1894–1895 at a cost of $262,000 by Filbert Porter & Co. under the direction of Chief Engineer George Smedley Webster (1855–1931) of the Philadelphia Department of Public Works and James H. Windrim, director of the Department of Public Works.
The bridge was designed as a double-decker bridge, but the upper deck was never built for lack of funds. The bridge carries two lanes of vehicular traffic on a 26-ft-wide roadway, with 7-ft sidewalks on either side, for a total width of 40 ft. In 2007, blue LED lights were added to highlight the bridge at night.
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October 20th, 2011
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