Taylor–Southgate Bridge

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The Taylor–Southgate Bridge is a continuous truss bridge that was built in 1995. It has a main span of Template:Convert, and a total span of Template:Convert. The bridge carries U.S. Route 27 across the Ohio River, connecting Newport, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio.

Some regard this bridge, which was a replacement for the structurally deficient and functionally obsolete Cincinnati-Newport Bridge built by Samuel Bigstaff,[1] as a little too plain in its design for a major urban bridge, especially considering many cities today are opting for a more elegant design, such as a cable stayed bridge.[2]

The bridge is named for the families of James Taylor, Jr. and Richard Southgate, two important early settlers of Newport. Richard was the father of William Wright Southgate, a pre Civil War Congressman from northern Kentucky.

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The bridge replaced the Cincinnati-Newport Bridge, a truss bridge built in 1890.[3] Commonly known as Central Bridge, it was demolished in 1992.[4]

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