Market Street Bridge (Passaic River)

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Market/2nd Street Bridge
Market Street Bridge 20100829.jpg
Coordinates 40°51′36″N74°06′58″W / 40.860°N 74.116°W / 40.860; -74.116 (Second Street Bridge) Coordinates: 40°51′36″N74°06′58″W / 40.860°N 74.116°W / 40.860; -74.116 (Second Street Bridge)
CarriesMarket Street (2nd Street) CR 619 jct.svg
Wallington Avenue Bergen County 34.svg
Crosses Passaic River
Locale Passaic & Wallington
New Jersey
Other name(s)2nd Street Bridge
Owner Passaic County
Maintained byPassaic and Bergen
ID number 1600003
Preceded by1894
Characteristics
Design double basule
(fixed 1977)
MaterialSteel
Total length307 feet (94 m)
Width30 feet (9.1 m)
No. of spans3
History
Designer Strauss Bascule Bridge Company
Constructed byF. W. Schwieres, Jr.
Construction end1930
1977
2002
Location
Market Street Bridge (Passaic River)
References
[1] [2] [3] [4]

Market Street Bridge, also known as the Second Street Bridge, is a vehicular bridge over the Passaic River crossing the Passaic-Bergen county line in Passaic and Wallington in northeastern New Jersey. The double-leaf bascule bridge was built in 1930 and fixed in the closed position in 1977. It was reconstructed in 2002. It carries a two-lane street and sidewalks in a late-19th and early-20th century industrial area along the river. [5] An earlier structure built at the crossing in 1894 was damaged during the Passaic floods of 1902 and 1903 but survived. [6] [7]

It is one of three bridges crossing the river between the two municipalities, the others being the Gregory Avenue Bridge and the Eighth Street Bridge. Two other crossings of the Passaic have been known as Market Street Bridge, the since-removed Pennsylvania Railroad bridge at Newark Penn Station and the extant vehicular bridge at Paterson.

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References

  1. "Market Street Bridge over Passaic River" (PDF). Historic Bridge Survey (1991–1994). New Jersey Department of Transportation. 2001. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  2. "Interim Bridge Report" (PDF). NJDOT. August 9, 2007. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  3. Federal Highway Administration (n.d.). "New Jersey". National Bridge Inventory. Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved 10 December 2016 via Uglybridges.
  4. "Passaic River Bridge (Market Street over Passaic River)". Bridgehunter. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  5. "Historic Bridge Survey (1991-1994)". New Jersey Department of Transportation. 2001. Retrieved 2012-08-21. The main span of the 3-span bridge is a Strauss underneath counterweight double-leaf girder bascule. The approaches are encased deck girders with concrete balustrades while the movable leafs have metal railings. A fairly late example of what by 1930was a common type, the span was altered c.1977 when the motors and controls were removed and the bridge was fixed. The gearing and octagonal houses remain, but the span has been significantly altered which diminishes its technological significance.
  6. "History". Borough of Wallington. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  7. "Fifty City Blocks At Passaic Under Water.; Wallington City Hall Out of Plumb and the Lyndhurst Bridge Is Gone" (PDF). The New York Times. 1902. Retrieved 20 December 2016.