PROJECT

 

Saddle Creek Bridge, CN 22761, NH-6-7(187)

   

Delivery Method: CM/GC

Advertisement Date: June 2025

 

   

 

 

  

 

Key Repairs:

  

• The bridge (Structure No.: S006 37025) will be replaced with a new bridge. A grade raise of the entire structure is not anticipated.

• This project will be constructed under traffic with lane closures controlled by appropriate traffic control devices and practices.

• All or most of the project work will be accomplished during daytime hours, but night work will be necessary for some work such as removals.

• Additional property rights may be required to build this project.

 

The Dodge Street Overpass is a 72 ft. bridge located in Douglas County in the Midtown area of Omaha on Highway US-6 at MM 370.25, at the grade separation of US-6 (Dodge St.) and Saddle Creek Rd. 

 

The overpass (and the Saddle Creek Underpass), was part of a larger federal aid project called the Dodge Street Project, which improved traffic flow by widening Dodge Street and adding modern street lighting, interlocking traffic signals, pedestrian subways, and a grade separation at Saddle Creek Boulevard. Remaining essentially unaltered since its construction in 1934, it is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as an excellent example of a structure produced under New Deal relief projects of the 1930s.

 

The Department of Roads designed the overpass as a concrete rigid frame structure, incorporating salvaged Dodge Street curbstones for its 4,160-square-foot stone facing. To accommodate the underpass, over 1,175 cubic yards of dirt were excavated to lower Saddle Creek Road. 

 

(Source: Federal Highway Administration)