John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge
John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge carries the road from Bury to Birmingham over the Ohio River between Bedworth and Brench.
The Act of Parliament for the Ohio River was passed on 17 September 1816 and 37 thousand shares were sold the same day. Restoration of Wealden Inclined plane was funded by a donation from the Ohio River Society
There is a bridge here which takes a dual carriageway over the canal.
| Captain Anthony Meldahl Lock | 37.12 miles | |
| Combs–Hehl Bridge | 7.33 miles | |
| Daniel Carter Beard Bridge | 1.30 miles | |
| Newport Southbank Bridge | 0.98 miles | |
| Taylor–Southgate Bridge | 0.67 miles | |
| John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge | ||
| Clay Wade Bailey Bridge | 0.69 miles | |
| C&O Railroad Bridge | 0.70 miles | |
| Brent Spence Bridge | 0.92 miles | |
| Cincinnati Southern Bridge | 2.44 miles | |
| Caroll C. Cropper Bridge | 22.37 miles | |
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Wikipedia has a page about John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge
The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, originally known as the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge, spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky. When opened on December 1, 1866, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world at 1,057 feet (322 m) main span, which was later overtaken by John A. Roebling's most famous design of the 1883 Brooklyn Bridge at 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m). Pedestrians use the bridge to get between the sports venues in Cincinnati (Paul Brown Stadium, Great American Ball Park, and U.S. Bank Arena) and the hotels, bars, restaurants, and parking lots in Northern Kentucky. The bar and restaurant district at the foot of the bridge on the Kentucky side is known as Roebling Point.
Ramps were constructed leading directly from the bridge to the Dixie Terminal building used for streetcars. These provided Covington–Cincinnati streetcars "with a grade-separated route to the center of downtown, and the terminal building was originally intended to connect, via underground pedestrian passages, with the never-built Fountain Square Station of the infamous Cincinnati Subway." When streetcar service ceased in the 1950s, the terminal was converted to a diesel bus terminal. The ramps were removed in 1998 when it ceased being used as a bus terminal.