Engineering and Contracting . t grade. The effect of this divergence atthe boulevard is to produce a difference inthe elevation of grade lines of ft. The city ordinance provided for a plategirder bridge with concrete abutments, butwhen the time came to detail the work thepark department entered a protest. It de-sired that the bridge be rebuilt on lines ex-actly similar to those of the former was impossible to do this, as was reluct-antly admitted after a careful study. A stonearch was then proposed, with abutments simi-lar to those of the old bridge. This was im-practicable beca
Engineering and Contracting . t grade. The effect of this divergence atthe boulevard is to produce a difference inthe elevation of grade lines of ft. The city ordinance provided for a plategirder bridge with concrete abutments, butwhen the time came to detail the work thepark department entered a protest. It de-sired that the bridge be rebuilt on lines ex-actly similar to those of the former was impossible to do this, as was reluct-antly admitted after a careful study. A stonearch was then proposed, with abutments simi-lar to those of the old bridge. This was im-practicable because of insufficient space fromtop of rail to soffit on the Nickel Plate negotiations continued a whole year with-out results. It was finally proposed by , chief engineer of the Board of Pub-lic Service, that a composite bridge be built;that a reinforced concrete arch be built forthe Short Line tracks where there was plentyof room, and that plate girders be used forthe Nickel Plate tracks. The present bridge. Fig. 2, New East Boulevard Bridge, Cleveland— Combination of Arch and Plate Girders with False Parapet and Soffit. DESCRIPTION OF EAST BOULEVARD AND EUCLIDAVE. BRIDGES. East Boulevard Bridge.—The original EastBoulevard Bridge was a three-hinged plategirder arch with ornamental stone abutments.
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