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Robinson Avenue Bridge

Robinson Avenue Bridge

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Most Recent Visit To Bridge: Winter 2006

Key Facts
Bridge Name Facility Carried / Feature Intersected Location Structure Type Construction Date / Builder or Contractor
Robinson Avenue Bridge Railroad (Norfolk Southern, Amtrak) Over Robinson Avenue (60th Avenue) Rural: Van Buren County, Michigan Metal Through Girder, Stationary 1930 By: Unknown
Technical Facts
Rehabilitation Date Structure Length Main Spans Approach Spans
2000 79.7 Feet (24.3 Meters) 2 None

This extremely unusual bridge is one of the few old bridges remaining in Van Buren County. The bizarre design is that one side of the bridge is two spans and the other side is much shorter and is only one span. The steel bent support is thus only under half of the bridge. To boot, the bridge is skewed! Its unusual design is because the road that parallels the railroad tracks changes the side of the tracks it runs along, plus there is an intersection with Robinson Avenue. This unusual type of intersection resulted in an unusual bridge.

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