Triborough Bridge
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Suspension bridge
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| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge
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| Built: | 1929 - 1936 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Queens, New York, New York, USA, North America The Bronx, New York, New York, USA, North America |
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| Crosses |
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| See also |
Triborough Bridge Harlem River Lift Span
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Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 420.9 m | |
| length of side spans | 214.8 m | |
| clearance | 41.1 m |
Materials
| superstructure |
steel
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| cables |
steel
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Participants
Initial construction (1929-1936)
- Othmar Ammann (chief engineer)
- Allston Dana (design engineer)
- Leon Solomon Moisseiff (consulting engineer)
- Harold W. Hudson (engineer of construction)
- Edward W. Stearns (assistant to chief engineer)
Design
Design consultants
Consulting engineers
- Moran, Maurice and Proctor (foundations)
Rehabilitation
Structural engineering
Relevant Web Sites
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Dave Frieder: Triborough Bridge
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HAER: Triborough Bridge, Passing through Queens, Manhattan & the Bronx, Queens, Queens County, NY
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LCPC Image Gallery: Triboro Bridge
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NYC Roads: Triborough Bridge (I-278)
Relevant Publications
- Le Triborough à New York, in "Ossature métallique", April 1937 v. 6
- Wearing it well, in "Bridge Design & Engineering", 2nd Quarter 2004, n. 35 v. 10
- The Triborough Bridge Project, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", August 1936, n. 8 v. 6
- Cable Safety Factors for Four Suspension Bridge, in "Journal of Bridge Engineering (ASCE)", November 1997, n. 4 v. 2
- Great American Bridges and Dams, John Wiley & Sons, New York (USA), ISBN 0471143855, 1984; pp. 137-138
- Les grands ponts du monde: Hors d'Europe, Brissaud, Poitiers (France), ISBN 2902170688, 1990; pp. 127
- Le Triborough Bridge à New-York, ouvrage circulaire de jonction à 3 voies, et ses chaussées d'approche, in "La Technique des Travaux", February 1937, n. 2 v. 13
- Investigations of Fractures in the Anchorages of the Triborough Bridge, presented at 10th Annual International Bridge Conference, 1993, Paper IBC 93-39.
- Cable care for Tribourough span, in "Bridge Design & Engineering", 2nd Quarter 1999, n. 15 v. 5
- New York City für Architekten, Heike Werner Verlag, Munich (Germany), ISBN 3980947106, 2004; pp. 230
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0000533 |
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| Created: | 21/11/1999 |
| Last Updated: | 05/03/2013 |
