Richard P. Braun Bridge

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Richard P. Braun Bridge

Carries	Several lanes of Minnesota State Highway 610
Crosses	Mississippi River
Locale	Brooklyn Park, Minnesota-Coon Rapids, Minnesota
Maintained by	Minnesota Department of Transportation
ID number	27239 (westbound), 27252 (eastbound)
Design	Concrete girder bridge
Longest span	122 feet
Total length	1326 feet (404 meters)
Width	96 feet (29.4 m) westbound, 69 feet (21 m) eastbound
Clearance below	21 feet
AADT	39000
Opening date	1985 (westbound span), 1999 (eastbound span)
Maps and aerial photos

Richard P. Braun Bridge is a pair of 10-span concrete girder bridges spanning the Mississippi River between Brooklyn Park, Minnesota and Coon Rapids, Minnesota. The eastbound span was built in 1985 to connect Minnesota State Highway 252 with Minnesota State Highway 610 in Coon Rapids. The westbound span was built in 1999 as part of the continued construction of Highway 610 through Brooklyn Park.

There is a walkway on the south side of the bridge that connects a trail along West River Road in Brooklyn Park with a trail along the east side of the river in Coon Rapids. The trail on the east side leads to the Coon Rapids Dam, about a mile and a half north.

[edit] See also

List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River

[edit] References

Costello, Mary Charlotte (2002). Climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge, Volume Two: Minnesota. Cambridge, MN: Adventure Publications. ISBN 0-9644518-2-4.
National Bridge Inventory (2006). Retrieved on 2006-05-23.