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23rd Street viaduct

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Official name
  
Kansas Avenue Bridge

Opened
  
1921

Body of water
  
Kansas River

Design
  
Warren Deck Truss

Location
  
Kansas City

Carries
  
4 lanes of Kansas Avenue in Kansas, 4 lanes of 23rd Street in Missouri

Crosses
  
Kansas River, West Bottoms, parking lot to Kemper Arena

Locale
  
Kansas City, Kansas, to Kansas City, Missouri

Maintained by
  
WyCo Unified Government and City of Kansas City, Missouri

Similar
  
Intercity Viaduct, Platte Purchase Bridge, Fairfax Bridge, Central Avenue Bridge, Rock Island Bridge

The 23rd Street viaduct is an automobile crossing of the Kansas River, and south of the Rock Island Bridge (Kansas City). It was built in 1921, and rebuilt in 2007. It is an elevated deck truss, and about 3,000 feet long. It survived the 1951, and 1993 Kansas City floods. It has two side approaches, one to the south, one to the north, and rises above the south part of the West Bottoms, and the parking lot to Kemper Arena. Its real name is the Kansas Avenue Bridge, but, because the primary half of it is in Missouri, it is called the 23rd Street viaduct more than the Kansas Avenue Bridge.

References

23rd Street viaduct Wikipedia