The Veterans Memorial Bridge in Rochester, New York

Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...

, carries NY Route 104 (less well known as the Keeler Street Expressway) across the Genesee River

Genesee River

The Genesee River is a North American river flowing northward through the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York. The river provided the original power for the Rochester area's 19th century mills and still provides hydroelectric power for downtown Rochester....

. The bridge is an architecturally significant concrete arch faced with white granite. Conceived in 1928 and finished in 1931, the span is the longest bridge in Rochester at 981 feet. It is 190 feet in height and 106 feet wide.

The bridge was originally connected to a traffic circle

Traffic circle

A traffic circle or rotary is a type of circular intersection in which traffic must travel in one direction around a central island. In some countries, traffic entering the circle has the right-of-way and drivers in the circle must yield. In many other countries, traffic entering the circle must...

 but was changed to an interchange in the 1960's.

Additional links have been included below for background information for future expansion of this article.

External links

• State Bridge Wins Statewide Award For Partnering Practices (Monroe County) 020103
• $34M USD rehab project to be completed Fall 2001
• History of Rochester - an Illustrated Timeline courtesy of an historian
• part of Seneca Park, one of three major parks in Rochester designed by Frederick Law Olmsted
  Frederick Law Olmsted
  Frederick Law Olmsted was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture, although many scholars have bestowed that title upon Andrew Jackson Downing...
  
  , is located in the shadow of the bridge
• a late '90s rehab utilized an innovative safety deck for the workers on the bridge
• several popular walking trails intersect near the bridge