Rich Street Bridge

{{Short description|Overpass in Columbus, Ohio}}

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| mapframe-custom = {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=250|zoom=15|type=shape|id=Q57602902|stroke-color=#424242|stroke-width=1}} Interactive map pinpointing the Rich Street Bridge

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The Rich Street Bridge is a bridge in Columbus, Ohio, United States, spanning the Scioto River and connecting downtown's Rich Street to Franklinton's Town Street. It carries U.S. Route 62 (US 62) and Ohio State Route 3 (SR 3). The bridge was completed in 2012.{{cite web |title=Rich Street Bridge Officially Opens Downtown |url=https://www.columbusunderground.com/rich-street-bridge-officially-opens-downtown |website=Columbus Underground |accessdate=October 21, 2018 |date=July 6, 2012 |archive-date=October 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022113258/https://www.columbusunderground.com/rich-street-bridge-officially-opens-downtown |url-status=live }}

The bridge replaced the Town Street Bridge (1917-2009). The original eastern anchor remains, reutilized as the Prow, an observation platform in the Scioto Mile Promenade park.{{cite news|title=Ron Pizzuti's quest|work=Columbus Monthly|url=https://www.columbusmonthly.com/article/20140206/NEWS/302069343|date=February 6, 2014|accessdate=April 23, 2020|archive-date=June 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604190820/https://www.columbusmonthly.com/article/20140206/NEWS/302069343|url-status=live}} The site features stone benches, lanterns, and a grove of birch trees.{{cite news|title=Scioto Mile: City banks on river in waterfront makeover|newspaper=The Columbus Dispatch|url=https://www.dispatch.com/article/20110707/NEWS/307079745|date=July 7, 2011|accessdate=April 23, 2020|archive-date=June 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604195820/https://www.dispatch.com/article/20110707/NEWS/307079745|url-status=live}} The 1917 bridge was part of the Scioto River Bridge Group, listed on the Columbus Register of Historic Properties in 1983 and proposed as part of the Columbus Civic Center Historic District, nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.{{cite web|title=Main Street Dam Removal & Scioto Greenways Feasibility Study|publisher=Stantec|pages=14–15|url=https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/p16802coll28/id/154873|date=2012|access-date=December 16, 2022}}