Baltimore Bridges – Kilduff’s Look at Various bridges found around Town

Baltimore City has plenty of old bridges, many of which are still standing and still being used for traffic. We are working to bring the Kilduff’s.com page over to the streamlined Kilduffs.net page, but many of the images we have posted have been found to be too small. Therefore, we are working to gather full size images for the page, which is taking a while.
( Note – I’m more of a “Older Maryland ” Landmark person, but recently a accident occurred on Baltimore’s Key Bridge, a bridge I was very familiar with. I have a few photos of the old bridge I will post once I locate them. )

My favorite Baltimore Bridge has to be the Hanover Street Bridge, that connection from the mainland to South Baltimore.

While it is a great looking bridge, the ride over it has gotten a bit bumpy over the years. Update – They resurfaced the bridge recently and it’s nice and smooth. Update to Update – Well it was smooth for a while.

Baltimore’s Orleans Street Viaduct is another bridge Baltimore could not do without. I could only imagine the downtown Baltimore traffic if it wasn’t for this cut thru from East to West Baltimore.

When it was first opened, it went by the name of the Bath Street Viaduct, but that name was soon changed to the Orleans Street Viaduct.

West Baltimore has a few very nice old bridges, although over the years it’s hard to tell you’re even on a bridge these days.

Being right on the water, Baltimore has always had the benefits of a natural Harbor. But with that benefit comes the issue on just how to cross that body of water. And we have found several plans for bridges over the years that were never realized.

In 1967, there were all types of plans on how to get traffic through and around Baltimore City. One of those plans was to have a highway travel down to the harbor and a bridge would carry the traffic across the water.

Around the 1940’s, the Patapsco River Bridge was planned but never built. A few years later, the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel opened.

One 1940’s plan had not only one bridge to be built, but a second one nearby. I also found plans that would have crossed right over Fort McHenry. Thank Goodness that was never completed.