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| Bridge Name | Facility Carried / Feature Intersected | Location | Structure Type | Construction Date and Builder/Engineer | |
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KH-3 KH-401 Bridge
Highway 3 Bridge | KH-3 (Talbot Road) Over KH-401 | Windsor: Essex County, Ontario | Concrete Rigid-Frame, Fixed | 1956 By Builder/Contractor: Unknown and Engineer/Design: M. M. Dillon and Company |
| Technical Facts |
| Rehabilitation Date | Main Span Length | Structure Length | Roadway Width | Main Spans |
| 1998 | 65.6 Feet (20 Meters) | 131.2 Feet (40 Meters) | 42.2 Feet (12.9 Meters) | 2 |
This bridge is a rare surviving example of a concrete rigid-frame overpass in Ontario that is two spans. The bridge is configured in a t-beam style, with individual beams discernable under the bridge, rather than a uniform concrete slab as found on some rigid-frame bridges. This bridge is the longest of its type in this region of Ontario. Although all of Ontario's beautiful rigid-frame overpasses are decreasing in population as they are demolished and replaced, the single-span examples are more common that the two-span examples. The two-span examples are about to become even more rarer, thanks to a project to extend Kings Highway 401 to the Detroit River in preparation for a new international cable-stayed bridge. This project will include demolishing this beautiful overpass. The KH-3 bridge is significant as a relatively early surviving rigid-frame overpass, and it also is unaltered including original railings in place on the bridge.
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