Owensboro Bridge
| Owensboro Bridge | |
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| Carries |
 SR 161/ KY 2262
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| Crosses | Ohio River |
| Locale | Owensboro, Kentucky |
| Official name | Owensboro Bridge |
| Other name(s) |
Glover Cary Bridge (unofficial honorific). The Owensboro entrance to the bridge features a "stack" of three plaques that were placed there when the bridge opened in 1940. The smallest of these, on the bottom of the stack, notes that the bridge was "Dedicated to the Memory of Glover H. Cary." But the bridge was never officially named for Cary. Blue Bridge (unofficial local nickname). |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Continuous truss bridge |
| Material | Steel |
| Total length | 615 m |
| Longest span | 230 m |
| History | |
| Designer | Frank Masters |
| Engineering design by | Modjeski & Masters |
| Opened | 1940 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 7,292 |
| Toll | Until 1954 |
Glover Cary Bridge (unofficial honorific). The Owensboro entrance to the bridge features a "stack" of three plaques that were placed there when the bridge opened in 1940. The smallest of these, on the bottom of the stack, notes that the bridge was "Dedicated to the Memory of Glover H. Cary." But the bridge was never officially named for Cary.
The Owensboro Bridge is a continuous truss bridge that spans the Ohio River between Owensboro, Kentucky and Spencer County, Indiana. Dedicated to the memory of the late U.S. Congressman Glover H. Cary (1885–1936) and often called the "Glover Cary Bridge," the bridge opened to traffic in September 1940. It originally was a toll bridge, but tolls were discontinued in 1954.
The bridge was funded through a $1.03 million federal grant, part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program, and public fundraising efforts. At first, the bridge connected Kentucky Highway 75 to Indiana Highway 75; in 1954, Kentucky 75 was redesignated U.S. Highway 431 and Indiana 75 became U.S. Highway 231.
In the fall of 2002, when the William H. Natcher Bridge was completed, about six miles upstream, U.S. 231 was rerouted onto the Natcher bridge and the former U.S. highway became the southern leg of an extended State Road 161.
The bridge was closed temporarily for a day and a half the weekend of March 13, 2011, due to the need for emergency repairs to the bridge deck with traffic temporarily detoured over the William H. Natcher Bridge. Following that emergency repair, transportation officials pressed ahead with planning and design on a full-depth deck rehab that was already scheduled for bidding in April 2011.
In early 2011, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet renumbered the highway across the bridge (which was U.S. 231 from 1954 to 2002 and Kentucky Route 2155 thereafter) as Kentucky Route 2262, which is a newly designated state highway that follows J.R. Miller Boulevard from Kentucky Route 54 to the Indiana state line. Kentucky 2155 now terminates at the intersection of J.R. Miller Blvd. and East Fifth Street.
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