South Street Bridge (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

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|caption = South Street Bridge (foreground) with Cira Centre South (background) in Philadelphia

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|carries = South Street

|owner = City of Philadelphia

|maint = Driscoll Construction Company, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

|designer = H2L2 Architects/Planners, LLC

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|material = steel, concrete

|length = {{cvt|753|ft}}[https://bridgereports.com/1477039 "South Street over I-76, Schuylkill R & CSX, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania"]. bridgereports.com. Source: National Bridge Inventory. Retrieved January 20, 2020.

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South Street Bridge is a bridge that was reconstructed in 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

History

The original South Street Bridge was a crumbling bridge dating back to 1920.

From 2003 to until its closure in 2009, pieces of the eroding bridge concrete would fall into the Schuylkill River and onto the Schuylkill Expressway. On November 6, 2010, the original bridge was completely torn down and replaced.{{cite news|title=After Two Years, South Street Bridge Re-Opens To Traffic|url=http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2010/11/07/after-two-years-south-street-bridge-re-opens-to-vehicles/|work=CBS Philly|date=7 November 2010}}

Architectural features

South Street Bridge is notable landmark in Philadelphia as drivers along the Schuylkill Expressway can see images on its glowing mesh. Bruce Chamberlain said that the mesh "... gave the bridge a soft glow at night, while maintaining the openness desired by the design team and community."

{{cite web|url=http://cambridgearchitectural.com/projects/south-street-bridge|title=South Street Bridge}} The lights stopped working in 2017, and haven't been up since then.{{cite web |last1=Madej |first1=Patricia |title=What happened to the lights on the South Street Bridge? |url=https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/south-street-bridge-lights-off-philadelphia-20190304.html |website=The Philadelphia Inquirer |access-date=6 September 2020}} Stimulus funding also subsidized connections from the new bridge to a "boardwalk" on the Schuylkill River Trail, which passes under the bridge.{{cite web|url=https://www.schuylkillbanks.org/projects/boardwalk-and-south-street-ramp|title=Boardwalk and South Street Ramp}}

File:SouthStreetBridge.jpg|South Street Bridge platform