The Main Avenue (Harold H. Burton Memorial) Bridge (alternately Main Avenue Viaduct) is a

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carrying

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Cleveland Memorial Shoreway The Cleveland Memorial Shoreway, often shortened to "the Shoreway", is a limited-access freeway in Cleveland and Bratenahl, Ohio. It closely follows the shore of Lake Erie and connects the east and west sides of Cleveland via the Main Avenue Br ...

over the

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. The bridge, completed in 1939, is in length, and was the longest elevated structure in OhioMain Ave. Bridge
. ''Encyclopedia of Cleveland History''. until the 2007 completion of the Veterans' Glass City Skyway in

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. It was named for

Harold H. Burton Harold Hitz Burton (June 22, 1888 – October 28, 1964) was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. Senator from Ohio, and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ...

, 45th mayor of Cleveland, in late January 1986. The bridge replaced an 1869 bridge at the same site, and was built in conjunction with construction of the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway. The bridge received extensive renovations 1991–1992; it subsequently received major structural repairs in 2007 and again in 2012–2013, both instances necessitating re-routing of large vehicles. In 2013, the Federal Highway Administration listed the Main Avenue Bridge as "structurally deficient" and "fracture critical". The bridge has been designated as a

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by the

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*{{cite book , title=Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland , first=Sara Ruth , last=Watson , author2=John R. Wolfs , year=1981 , chapter=Chapter 2: The Four Great Viaducts , chapter-url=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ebooks/bmc/bmcchap2.html#p28 , pages=28–31 , access-date=2009-06-30 , archive-date=2010-06-13 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613104918/http://clevelandmemory.org/ebooks/bmc/bmcchap2.html#p28 , url-status=dead Transcription at ''The Cleveland Memory Project'' website. Bridges completed in 1939 Bridges in Cleveland Road bridges in Ohio Cantilever bridges in the United States Bridges over the Cuyahoga River Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks

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