Nashville TN John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge B W Cumberland River Architectural Cityscape Art

by Reid Callaway

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Nashville TN John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge B W Cumberland River Architectural Cityscape Art

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Reid Callaway

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Nashville TN John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge B&W....by Reid Callaway
Cumberland River Architectural Cityscape Art

This is Nashville's John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge, previously the Shelby Street Bridge located one block south of Broadway Street and along the Cumberland River. This bridge connects downtown Nashville with the Nissian Field (Titans Football) and Cumberland River Park which are just out of the picture to your right. This ionic Nashville landmark is one of the longest pedestrian bridges in Tennessee and can also be found pictured in my Nashville & Bridges Collections on this website.

The John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge (previously called the Shelby Street Bridge or Shelby Avenue Bridge) is a truss bridge that spans the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The bridge spans 960 m (3,150 ft) and is one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

The John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge was originally known as the Sparkman Street Bridge and was built one block south of Broadway, connecting Sparkman Street and Shelby Avenue. The bridge was constructed at a cost of about $475,000. Another bridge called the Jefferson Street Bridge which was virtually identical to it was built at the same time. The Jefferson Street Bridge was opened a year after the Sparkman Street Bridge.

Nashville is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in the north central part of the state. The city is a center for the music, healthcare, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and home to numerous colleges and universities. It is known as a center of the country music industry, earning it the nickname "Music City, U.S.A."

Since 1963, Nashville has had a consolidated city-county government, which includes six smaller municipalities in a two-tier system. The city is governed by a mayor, a vice-mayor, and a 40-member Metropolitan Council; 35 of the members are elected from single-member districts, while the other five are elected at-large. Reflecting the city's position in state government, Nashville is home to the Tennessee Supreme Court's courthouse for Middle Tennessee. According to 2016 estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, the total consolidated city-county population stood at 684,410. The "balance" population, which excludes semi-independent municipalities within Nashville, was 660,388. The 2015 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1,830,345, making it the largest metropolitan statistical area in the state. The 2015 population of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Columbia combined statistical area, a larger trade area, was 1,951,644.

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October 17th, 2017

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