The Buck O'Neil Bridge is a triple arch bridge that spans the Missouri River in

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, in the

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. It first opened for traffic September 9, 1956 as the Broadway Bridge. It was built at a cost of $12 million. It was a toll bridge until 1991. It replaced the

Second Hannibal Bridge The Second Hannibal Bridge is a rail bridge over the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri, connecting Jackson County, Missouri, with Clay County, Missouri. Opened in 1917, the bridge replaced the original Hannibal Bridge which crossed the ...

just to its east which had handled auto traffic on its upper level. It provides access from downtown Kansas City to the

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and to the city of

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. U.S. Route 169, which the bridge carries across the river, never enters

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, but skirts the western border. On June 24, 2016 the Bridge was officially renamed from the Broadway Bridge to the Buck O'Neil Bridge named after the

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player and manager John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil. The bridge is currently being replaced. Broadway Bridge Kansas City

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Broadway (Hwy 169) Missouri River Bridge in Kansas City, Missouri
Through arch bridges in the United States Bridges in Kansas City, Missouri Bridges completed in 1956 Bridges over the Missouri River Former toll bridges in Missouri Road bridges in Missouri U.S. Route 169 Bridges of the United States Numbered Highway System {{Missouri-bridge-struct-stub

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