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Passyunk Avenue Bridge

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The much more recent Passyunk Avenue Bridge, and the University Avenue Bridge remain the only two extant double leaf bascule type drawbridges on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.
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The current bridge was completed in 1983. It was built on an alignment slightly to the north of its predecessor, a two-lane double-leaf bascule bridge that dated to 1911.
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Coordinates
39°55′12″N 75°12′07″W / 39.920°N 75.202°W / 39.920; -75.202
BicyclePA Route E
Schuylkill River
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ID number
Double leaf bascule bridge
double leaf bascule bridge
Schuylkill River
South Philadelphia
Southwest Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
George C. Platt Bridge
List of crossings of the Schuylkill River
Passyunk Township, Pennsylvania
University Avenue Bridge
Passyunk Avenue Bridge from junkyard view
"UNIVERSITY AVENUE BRIDGE Paul Philippe Cret, architect"
Schuylkill River
CSX Philadelphia Subdivision bridge
George C. Platt Bridge

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