Kinzua Bridge Featured on Wikipedia

The Kinzua Bridge, in McKean County, PA, is the featured article in Wikipedia today. See the feature on Wikipedia's home page.

See Bridgemapper's information on the Kinzua Bridge at it's record page or at the McKean County page.

New Featured Bridge: the Hays Street Bridge

The Hays Street Bridge in San Antonio, TX (Bexar County) is the latest bridge to be featured on Bridgemapper's home page.

Over its 129-year life span, the bridge has served many purposes. Built in 1881 for railroad use, the bridge was converted for vehicular use 1910, closed and abandoned in 1982. After decades of neglect, the bridge is currently being restored for use as a pedestrian bridge! The model project is an example of neighborhood revitalization through historic bridge preservation.

The Hays Street Bridge's main span is an example of a Whipple truss with Phoenix column compression members, one of only a few such surviving examples in the country.

1,000 Bridges!

The Old Pomeroy-Mason Bridge is Bridgemapper.com's 1,000th bridge! Other recent updates include bridges of Texas; Delaware; Massachusetts; Bedford County, Pennsylvania; Somerset County, Pennsylvania; Monroe County, Florida; Washington County, Utah; and Jackson County, West Virginia. We have over a thousand more bridges to add, so keep checking the site!

Greensburg Pike bridge over Route 30 to close March 1

The snow still isn't melted, but it's almost bridge repair season in Pittsburgh...

The bridge carrying Greensburg Pike over Route 30, in North Versailles Township, Allegheny County, will close for repairs on March 1. PennDOT will repair the approaches, guide rail and drainage system. The bridge will remain closed through late November.

Read more at: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10054/1037852-56.stm

New Feature: Bridge Detail Pages

I added a detail page for each bridge on Bridgemapper. The detail pages contain the same information shown in the county maps, and can be accessed from either the Bridge List or from the All Bridges map.

The great thing about the bridge detail pages is that you can now link to individual bridges on our site, like this, instead of having to direct users to an entire county.

Hulton Bridge is the latest Featured Bridge

The Hulton Bridge is the latest Featured Bridge on Bridgemapper. The bridge will be featured on our home page, along with links to the Carnegie Mellon University students' presentation on preserving the bridge and the ASCE January 2010 newsletter featuring the project.

Hulton Bridge in ASCE Newsletter

The Hulton Bridge preservation effort was featured in the January 2010 edition of the ASCE Newsletter.

See the newsletter here.