Official name Kansas Avenue Bridge Opened 1921 | Design Warren Deck Truss Location Kansas City | |
Carries 4 lanes of Kansas Avenue in Kansas, 4 lanes of 23rd Street in 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.
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