Valley View Bridge | |
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 Valley View Bridge as viewed from the east, 2012 | |
| Coordinates | 41°24′31″N 81°38′02″W / 41.408552°N 81.633843°W |
| Carries |  I-480 |
| Crosses | Cuyahoga River Ohio and Erie Canal Csx Rail Line Canal Road W. Canal Road Ohio/Erie Towpath Trail |
| Locale | Valley View and Independence, Cuyahoga County, Ohio |
| Maintained by | Ohio Department of Transportation, District 12 |
| ID number | 1812521 1812548 |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | steel multi-stringer highway girder bridges |
| Total length | 4,150 feet (1,260 m) |
| Height | 215 feet (66 m)[1] |
| Longest span | 300 feet (91 m) |
| History | |
| Construction start | 1972 (outer spans), 2018 (middle span) |
| Construction end | 1975 (outer spans),[2] 2020 (middle span)[3] |
| Opened | 1977 (outer spans),[4] 2020 (middle span)[3] |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 180000 |
| Location | |
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The Valley View Bridge is a trio of steel multi-stringer highway girder bridges that carry Interstate 480 over the Cuyahoga River valley in Valley View and Independence, Ohio. They are 215 feet (66 m) high and 4,150 feet (1,260 m) long.[1][5]
- ^ a b Rudder, John (January 6, 2020). "Upon completion, I-480 Valley View bridge will carry 12 lanes of traffic across Cuyahoga River Valley". WEWS-TV. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
At any given time, 180,000 vehicles use the I-480 Valley View bridges which sit high above the Cuyahoga River Valley at 215 feet. [...] [Amanda McFarland, spokesperson, Ohio Department of Transportation District 12:] This middle bridge is going remain and it's going to carry two lanes in each direction. It will kind of serve as like an express lane and it will help motorists who don't want to access the 77 interchange to bypass it.
- ^ "Valley View Bridge Fact Sheet" (PDF). Ohio Department of Transportation. 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
- ^ a b Staff (September 13, 2020). "New I-480 Valley View Bridge Open to Eastbound Traffic" (Press release). Ohio Department of Transportation. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
- ^ Sangiacomo, Michael (February 22, 2011). "Driver dies when truck cab falls 200 feet from I-480 bridge". The Plain Dealer. Advance Ohio. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- ^ "Interstate 480".[self-published source]