Mathews Bridge
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| Official name | John E. Mathews Bridge |
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| Carries | four general purpose lanes |
| Crosses | St. Johns River |
| Locale | Jacksonville, Florida |
| Maintained by | Florida Department of Transportation |
| ID number | 720076 |
| Design | steel through truss bridge |
| Longest span | 246.9 meters (810 feet) |
| Total length | 2248.2 meters (7736 feet) |
| Width | 17.7 meters (58 feet) |
| Vertical clearance | 6.80 meters (22.3 feet) |
| Clearance below | 46.3 meters (152 feet) |
| Opening date | 1953 |
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The Mathews Bridge in Jacksonville, Florida spans the St. Johns River, bringing traffic along Arlington Expressway between Arlington and Downtown. It was named after John E. Mathews, a Florida state legislator and Chief Justice of the 1955 Florida Supreme Court who helped gather funding for the bridge's construction. [1]
[edit] Accidents
The bridge has a notoriously problematic grating in the center span. After the previous grating wore out, a new one was installed, causing drivers to complain that the replacement was slippery and difficult to cross. That grating was replaced with a new, "state of the art" grating, which has also provoked controversy causing citizens to pressure the Jacksonville City Council to act again concerning the grating. The only acts so far having been made are reducing the speed limit and roughing up the grating.
[edit] External links
| St. Johns River crossings in the Jacksonville, Florida area | |
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| Upriver from Downtown Jax | Shands Bridge (to be replaced or supplemented) - Buckman Bridge - Timuquana Bridge (never built) |
| Downtown Jax | Fuller Warren Bridge - Acosta Bridge - Main Street Bridge - Hart Bridge - Mathews Bridge - 20th Street Extension (never built) |
| Downriver from Downtown Jax | Dames Point Bridge - Florida State Road 113A (never built) - Mayport Ferry |
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