Crosses Kansas River Design Deck truss Width 16 m Location Kansas City Body of water Kansas River | Maintained by KDOT and MoDOT Opened 1907 Longest span 1,151 m Bridge type Truss bridge | |
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Carries 7 lanes of I‑70 / US 24 / US 40 / US 169 (3 westbound, 4 eastbound); bike/pedestrian path Locale Kansas City, Kansas–Kansas City, Missouri Official name Lewis and Clark Viaduct Similar Paseo Bridge, ASB Bridge, Fort Henry Bridge, Buck O'Neil Bridge, Platte Purchase Bridge | ||
The Intercity Viaduct (officially the Lewis and Clark Viaduct since 1969) is an automobile and pedestrian crossing of the Kansas River in the United States. Designed by Waddell and Hedrick, this four lane, two level deck truss bridge was built in 1907. It rises above the West Bottoms, and several sets of railroad tracks. It was the first roadway bridge to connect Kansas City, Missouri, with Kansas City, Kansas, non-stop all the way across. It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and carries eastbound traffic for Interstate 70 (I-70)/U.S. Route 24 (US 24)/US 40/US 169, while its sister bridge, the Lewis and Clark Viaduct, built in 1962, carries westbound traffic.
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Map of Lewis and Clark Viaduct Bridge, United States
The eastbound lanes were built as the Intercity Viaduct, carrying both east and west lanes, but renamed the Lewis and Clark Viaduct on January 25, 1969, taking the name of its sister bridge that would now carry the westbound lanes, built in 1962 to the north.
History
Designed by the engineering firm Waddell and Hedrick in 1903, the viaduct followed a flood that same year that wiped out all but one of the 17 bridges that spanned the Kaw River. Ground broke to mark the building of the bridge in 1905.