The West River Drive Bridge is a steel girder bridge built in 1966 over the Schuylkill River

Schuylkill River

The Schuylkill River is a river in Pennsylvania. It is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River.The river is about long. Its watershed of about lies entirely within the state of Pennsylvania. The source of its eastern branch is in the Appalachian Mountains at Tuscarora Springs, near Tamaqua in...

 on West River Drive (since renamed Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation oversees transportation issues in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The administrator of PennDOT is the Pennsylvania Secretary of Transportation, currently Barry Schoch Presently, PennDOT supports over of state roads and highways, about 25,000...

 owns and maintains the bridge. The western end of this bridge is upstream from the western end of the Spring Garden Street Bridge

Spring Garden Street Bridge

Spring Garden Street Bridge is a bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, that crosses the Schuylkill River below Fairmount Dam. It is the fourth bridge at the Upper Ferry site.The bridge is located at .-1st bridge: The Colossus:...

, but the eastern end of this bridge is downstream from the eastern end of the Spring Garden Street Bridge.

See also

List of crossings of the Schuylkill River