Lindbergh Viaduct - Reading, PA - Arch Bridges on Waymarking.com

From GoReadingBerks.com:
The Viaduct was provisionally known as the Mineral Springs Road Viaduct. Its name was changed on June 15, 1927 when City Council dedicated the Viaduct in honor of famed aviator Charles A. Lindbergh who completed his solo transatlantic flight that year.

Built on a sweeping horizontal curve, it forms a backdrop to Reading's Pendora Park. The Viaduct, a 13-span, reinforced-concrete, open-spandrel arch Viaduct, is 563 feet long, and is 70 feet wide, thus providing for a roadway of 50 feet and sidewalks of 10 feet each on both sides. The western end of the Viaduct is located on Mineral Spring road east of Eighteenth Street. The eastern end passes over Rose Valley Creek, a section of Pendora Park and South 19th Street, and meets the hillside at a point near where a station for the Mount Penn gravity railroad once stood.

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Length of bridge: 563 feet What type of traffic does this bridge support?: Motor vehicles What kind of gap does this bridge cross?: Rose Valley Creek, a section of Pendora Park and South 19th Street Date constructed: 2/1/1928 Is the bridge still in service for its original purpose?: Yes Name of road or trail the bridge services: Mineral Spring Road, Reading, PA Location: Reading, Berks County, PA Height of bridge: Not listed

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