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General Information

Completion: 1974
Status: in use

Project Type

Location

Location: , , ,
, , ,
Address: U.S. Route 1
Crosses:
  • Raritan River
Carries:
  • U.S. Route 1
Next to: Morris Goodkind Bridge (1929)
Coordinates: 40° 29' 33.68" N    74° 24' 47.74" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

main span 61.60 m
total length 580 m

Materials

piers reinforced concrete
main girders steel

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Donald and Morris Goodkind Bridges are a pair of bridges on U.S. Route 1 in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The bridges cross the Raritan River, connecting Edison on the north bank with New Brunswick on the south.

The northbound span, a concrete arch bridge, is named after its designer, New Jersey Highway Department engineer Morris Goodkind. This span was completed in 1929 and reflects the Art Deco styling of the time. Along both sides of the bridge, there are historical plaques that read of the site's significance to both the Lenape Indians and the American colonists. Originally named the College Bridge, it was renamed the Morris Goodkind Bridge on April 25, 1969. Morris had a son, Donald, who also became an architect and engineer for the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Donald designed the southbound bridge, a steel span bridge built in 1974, which was named after him in 2004.

In popular culture

In the 1983 musical film Eddie and the Cruisers, fictional rock band leader Eddie Wilson was believed to have drowned when his 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air went off the Morris Goodkind Bridge on March 15, 1964.

In The Sopranos episode "Nobody Knows Anything," Detective Vin Makazian leaps to his death from the Donald Goodkind Bridge.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Donald and Morris Goodkind Bridges" and modified on 10 February 2023 according to the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

Participants

Design

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20017352
  • Published on:
    17/08/2005
  • Last updated on:
    07/02/2023
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