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The Jefferson Barracks Bridge, often called the J.B. Bridge, is a pair of bridges that span the Mississippi River on the south side of St. Louis, Missouri. Both bridges are 909 foot long steel arch bridges. The first bridge was built in 1983, the second opened in 1992. A delay occurred during the construction of the second bridge when a crane dropped a section of it into the river and it had to be rebuilt.
The names comes from the nearby Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, itself originally part of the large Jefferson Barracks military complex, established in 1826 and decommissioned in 1946.
Columbia Road is a major thoroughfare that begins at the eastern edge of Franklin Park in Dorchester and links to Circuit Drive within the Park. It represents a possible extension of the Emerald Necklace from Circuit Drive in Franklin Park northwest towards the Boston Harbor.
The Boston Parks Department plants and maintains the medians and edges of Columbia Road close to Franklin Park, which are planted with young trees and grass. Although closer to Franklin Park Columbia Road has elements of a greenway, the road does not compare to the lush, green, un-peopled parkways in the Emerald Necklace. Farther northeast of Franklin Park, Columbia Road has a concrete median and no trees and looses all semblance of a greenway.
To get to places in other towns and cities, Columbians rely mostly on the four highways located nearby. Illinois Route 3 is the only highway that runs through the city. It connects Columbia with Dupo and Cahokia in the northwest and Waterloo and Red Bud from the southeast. Illinois Route 158 has its western terminus just south of the city off of Route 3 and connects Columbia with Millstadt. Interstate 255 and U.S. Route 50 overlap in St. Louis and continue over the Jefferson Barracks Bridge, often called the J.B. Bridge for short, to Columbia where they overlap once again with Route 3 in an area just north of the city.
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