Carries US 169 Official name Buck O'Neil Bridge Design Through arch bridge Opened 9 September 1956 Location Kansas City Body of water Missouri River | Crosses Missouri River Other name(s) Broadway Bridge Construction started 1955 Total length 776 m Bridge type Through arch bridge | |
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Locale Kansas City, Missouri to North Kansas City, Missouri Similar Hannibal Bridge, Second Hannibal Bridge, Heart of America Bridge, ASB Bridge, Paseo Bridge | ||
Modot helps rename the broadway bridge to the buck o neil bridge
The Buck O'Neil Bridge is a triple arch bridge that spans the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. It first opened for traffic September 9, 1956 as the Broadway Bridge. It was built at a cost of $12 million. It was a toll bridge until 1991.
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Map of Buck O'Neil Bridge, Kansas City, MO, USA
It replaced the Second Hannibal Bridge just to its east which had handled auto traffic on its upper level.
It provides access from downtown Kansas City to the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport and to the city of Riverside, Missouri. U.S. Route 169, which the bridge carries across the river, never enters North Kansas City, Missouri, but skirts the western border.
On June 24, 2016 the Bridge was officially renamed from the Broadway Bridge to the Buck O'Neil Bridge named after the Kansas City Monarchs player and manager John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil.