Palm Beach County, Florida Bridges: Spanish River Blvd. Bridges across the Intracoastal Waterway (1)

December 2012 (26.38634 Degrees, -80.07104 Degrees) Spanish River Blvd. Bridges

Continuing north are the two Spanish River Boulevard Bridges, which carry eastbound and westbound State Route 800 over the Intracoastal Waterway. The bridges are 486.9 ft long precast concrete trestles with movable steel bascule spans over the channel. They were built in 1971, carry 8,000 vehicles a day, and are in satisfactory condition. Today's photo shows the trestle approaches, the operator's house cantilevered from the bascule pier, and the fenders on the west side of the channel. We'll take a closer look at the bridges tomorrow.

Palm Beach County, Florida Bridges: Spanish River Blvd. Bridges across the Intracoastal Waterway (1) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.