18th Street Expressway Bridge
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The 18th Street Expressway Bridge is a one level
deck truss A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units. The connected elements, typically straight, may be stressed from tension, compression, or s ...
, four lane crossing of the
Kansas River The Kansas River, also known as the Kaw, is a meandering river in northeastern Kansas in the United States. It is potentially the southwestern most part of the Missouri River drainage, which is sometimes in turn the northwesternmost portion of ...
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Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City (commonly known as KCK) is the third-most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is an inner suburb of the older and more populous Kansas City, Missouri, after which it is named. As ...
. It was built in 1959, to replace the Argentine Bridge to the west. It also rises above the BNSF railroad tracks. It was damaged in 2000, after a BNSF train derailed and destroyed one of the piers, which caused the south approach span to buckle, and disabled it for several months while it was being repaired. The bridge has no significant shoulder (breakdown lane) and no pedestrian walkway. Bridges over the Kansas River Bridges in Kansas City, Kansas Bridges completed in 1959 Road bridges in Kansas U.S. Route 69 Bridges of the United States Numbered Highway System 1959 establishments in Kansas Truss bridges in the United States {{Kansas-road-stub