Gateway Bridge (Illinois-Iowa)

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Gateway Bridge
Carries	2 lanes of U.S. Route 30
Crosses	Mississippi River
Locale	Clinton, Iowa and Fulton, Illinois
Design	Suspension bridge
AADT	10,000[1]
Opening date	June 1956
Coordinates	41°50′16″N, 90°11′02″W

The Gateway Bridge (locally called the South Bridge) is a suspension bridge over the Mississippi River in Clinton, Iowa, USA. It carries U.S. Route 30 from Iowa into Illinois just south of Fulton, Illinois. The bridge itself is two travel lanes wide. The Gateway Bridge was closed in March of 2006 for repainting and reconstruction of U.S. Route 30 on the Illinois side of the river, and reopened in November 2006. Traffic on U.S. Route 30 intending to cross the river was detoured north to the Lyons-Fulton Bridge.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River

[edit] External links

• John Weeks' US-30 Gateway Bridge, Clinton IA page — this page contains pictures of the Gateway Bridge.

Bridges of the Mississippi River Upstream Lyons-Fulton Bridge Gateway Bridge Downstream Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Bridge