Donald and Morris Goodkind Bridges

Donald and Morris Goodkind Bridges

Donald (front) and Morris (back) Goodkind bridges
Coordinates 40°29′33″N 74°24′47″W / 40.492623°N 74.413124°W / 40.492623; -74.413124Coordinates: 40°29′33″N 74°24′47″W / 40.492623°N 74.413124°W / 40.492623; -74.413124
Carries US 1
Bicycles and pedestrians
Crosses Raritan River
Locale New Brunswick into Edison, NJ
Other name(s) College Bridge[1]
Named for Morris Goodkind, Chief Bridge Engineer and designer
Donal Goodkind, son of Morris and designer of steel bridge
Owner New Jersey DOT
NJ Bridge ID NJ 1203150[2]
Preceded by Albany Street Bridge
Followed by Basilone Bridge
Characteristics
Design Open spandrel deck arch[1]
Material Reinforced concrete (Morris)
Steel (Donald)[3]
Total length 1,902 feet (580 m)[2]
Width 49.9 feet (15.2 m)[2][1]
Longest span 202.1 feet (61.6 m)[2][1]
Number of spans 15
Clearance below 100 feet (30 m)[1]
History
Architect Morris Goodkind[1]
Designer Morris Goodkind
Constructed by Parker and Graham Inc.[1]
Opened 1929 (1929) (Morris)
1976 (1976) (Donald)
Statistics
Daily traffic 55,658 (2013)[2]
Donald and Morris Goodkind Bridges
Location in Middlesex County, New Jersey

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. Originally named the College Bridge, it was renamed the Morris Goodkind Bridge on April 25, 1969.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "New Jersey Historic Bridge Survey" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Bureau of Environmental Services, State of New Jersey. 12 November 2012. pp. 4–5. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Morris Goodkind Bridge". Bridge Hunters. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Steven Hartsite (25 July 2012). "Bridges of sighs". STEVENHARTSITE. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  4. ↑ New Jersey Historic Bridge Data: Middlesex, accessed March 30, 2007
  5. ↑ "Bill names Rt. 1 bridge after designer". dailytargum.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011.
  6. ↑ nj.com blog, accessed July 26, 2007
  7. ↑ Ugoku. "The Sopranos location guide - Donald Goodkind Bridge". sopranos-locations.com.


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