Talk:Broadway Bridge (Kansas City)
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[edit] US 71
I can't point to a source on this other then my own memory. I'm certain this bridge used to carry US 71. I do not know if it did at the time the bridge opened but signage at Downtown Airport referred to US 71 well into the late 70s, possibly early 80s. US 71 was not on Broadway at that time and may have been moved to the Paseo Bridge with I-29 & I-35 around the time airline operations were moved to Kansas City International Airport. With the airlines gone and no other numbered route to replace the shields updating the signs was probably not a high priority. My mother told me the Paseo Bridge was formerly a toll bridge and US 71 may have relocated to it when the tolls were removed. The freeway between downtown and I-29 had been known as the Broadway Extension and had no highway number assigned to it for about 20 years before I-169 was moved to this route. North of I-29 the freeway had been US 169 but it followed I-29 to I-635 to enter Kansas on the Platte Purchase Bridge multiplexed with its parent US 69. This resulted in northbound I-29 multiplexing with southbound US 169 before realigning to this more logical route. I no longer live in the area so I can not easily source this from old newspapers at the library.
Skywayman 05:20, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
