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South Street Bridge is a bridge that was reconstructed in 2010 in
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History

The original South Street Bridge was a crumbling bridge dating back to 1920. From 2003 to until its closure in 2009, pieces of the eroding bridge concrete would fall into the
Schuylkill River The Schuylkill River ( , ) is a river in eastern Pennsylvania. It flows for U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map(). accessed April 1, 2011. from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Pottsville ...
and onto the Schuylkill Expressway. On November 6, 2010, the original bridge was completely torn down and replaced.


Architectural features

South Street Bridge is notable landmark in
Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...
as drivers along the Schuylkill Expressway can see images on its glowing mesh. Bruce Chamberlain said that the mesh "... gave the bridge a soft glow at night, while maintaining the openness desired by the design team and community." The lights stopped working in 2017, and haven't been up since then. Stimulus funding also subsidized connections from the new bridge to a "boardwalk" on the
Schuylkill River Trail The Schuylkill River Trail ( , ) is a multi-use trail along the banks of the Schuylkill River in southeastern Pennsylvania. Partially complete, the trail is ultimately planned to run about from the river's headwaters in Schuylkill County, Penns ...
, which passes under the bridge. File:SouthStreetBridge.jpg, South Street Bridge platform


See also

* List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania * List of crossings of the Schuylkill River


References


External links

* of previous bridge {{Crossings navbox , structure = Crossings , place =
Schuylkill River The Schuylkill River ( , ) is a river in eastern Pennsylvania. It flows for U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map(). accessed April 1, 2011. from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Pottsville ...
, bridge = South Street Bridge , bridge signs = , upstream = Walnut Street Bridge , upstream signs = , downstream = PECO utility tunnel
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