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West River Drive Bridge

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Carries
  
West River Drive

Opened
  
1966

Location
  
Philadelphia

Materials
  
Steel, Concrete

Maintained by
  
PennDOT

Total length
  
214 m

Body of water
  
Schuylkill River

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Crosses
  
Schuylkill River, Schuylkill River Trail

Locale
  
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Official name
  
West River Drive Bridge

Other name(s)
  
Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive Bridge

Owner
  
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Similar
  
Schuylkill River, Spring Garden Street Bri, Fisher's Lane Bridge, Walnut Lane Bridge, Walt Whitman Bridge

The West River Drive Bridge is a steel girder bridge built in 1966 over the Schuylkill River on West River Drive (since renamed Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation owns and maintains the bridge. The western end of this bridge is upstream from the western end of the Spring Garden Street Bridge, but the eastern end of this bridge is downstream from the eastern end of the Spring Garden Street Bridge.

References

West River Drive Bridge Wikipedia