Talk:New Chain of Rocks Bridge

Discrepancy
There is a glaring discrepancy between this article and the article Chain of Rocks Bridge.

In that article, it is stated:


 * "Its most notable feature is a 22-degree bend occurring at the middle of the crossing, necessary to allow river traffic to have uninterrupted navigation on the river."

However, in this (New Chain of Rocks Bridge) article it is stated:


 * "The original Chain of Rocks Bridge was a narrow bridge with a 22 degree bend midway over the river... The true reason that the 22 degree bend existed was to minimize construction costs, as a placing a bend in the bridge was the only way to ensure the bridge was consistently laid upon bedrock."

Well which is it? here I find:


 * "The promoters had purchased land on each side of the river, but the parcels were not directly across the river from each other. The plan was to build the bridge on a diagonal to the river. The US Army Corps of Engineers objected to having a bridge cross the navigation channel at an angle. As a result, the section of the bridge crossing the navigation channel was built straight across the river, and then the remaining part of the bridge was built on the diagonal to meet up with the Missouri shore. The result is the 24 degree bend where the straight and diagonal sections meet."

which tends to support the former explanation, but not exactly, and actually seems to be a third explanation. Plus who is John Weks anyway? And why does a bridge crossing a river diagonally impede navigation? This official Missouri document (pdf) states that both reasons are in play. So this seems rather murky at best, and if a truly reliable original source can't be found, perhaps we should remove speculation about the reason for the 22 degree bend from both articles.

I am cross-posting this at the Chain of Rocks Bridge talk page. Herostratus (talk) 03:58, 25 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Not having gotten any response, I simply removed the reasons from both articles, leaving just the bare fact that there is a 22-degree bend. Herostratus (talk) 17:47, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Mississippi River Bridge vs. Canal Bridge
This article refers to the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River. Over a mile to the east, the Chain of rocks canal has a different bridge that carries I-270 over the canal. The canal bridge was demolished in early February 2015 after a replacement was built. The pair of bridges over the Mississippi River has not been demolished. There is also an article for the old Chain of Rocks Bridge just downstream of this bridge. There is an article about the Chain of Rocks Lock, but apparently no article for the canal or any of the bridges over the canal. The canal is only 500 ft or so wide, the Mississipi River is over 3,200 ft wide at the point the "New" Chain of Rocks Bridge. Perhaps this article is not named terribly well, since it has been "new" since 1966. It is newer than the historic 1929 Chain of Rocks Bridge. TLDR; this is not an article about the chain of Rocks canal bridge, 1.5 miles to the east. --Dual Freq (talk) 00:09, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

And on that note, what will this "New Chain of Rocks Bridge" page be called when this 52 year old bridge is replaced with an even newer one? (as is currently being planned). Wilke339 (talk) 21:20, 30 May 2018 (UTC) wilke339

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