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List Of Cable-stayed Bridges In The United States
This List of cable-stayed bridges in the United States includes notable cable-stayed bridges, both existing and destroyed, in the United States of America, organized by name. A * Abraham Lincoln Bridge * Arthur J. DiTommaso Memorial Bridge * Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge B * Barton Creek Bridge * Bayview Bridge * Benton City – Kiona Bridge * Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge * Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge * Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge C * Cable Bridge * Christopher S. Bond Bridge (Kansas City, Missouri) * Clark BridgeDavid Goodyear and Ralph Salamie, "The Clark Bridge" ''Civil Engineering'', August 1994, accessed 4 August 2009 * |
List Of Cable-stayed Bridges In The United States
This List of cable-stayed bridges in the United States includes notable cable-stayed bridges, both existing and destroyed, in the United States of America, organized by name. A * Abraham Lincoln Bridge * Arthur J. DiTommaso Memorial Bridge * Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge B * Barton Creek Bridge * Bayview Bridge * Benton City – Kiona Bridge * Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge * Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge * Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge C * Cable Bridge * Christopher S. Bond Bridge (Kansas City, Missouri) * Clark BridgeDavid Goodyear and Ralph Salamie, "The Clark Bridge" ''Civil Engineering'', August 1994, accessed 4 August 2009 * |
List Of Cable-stayed Bridges In The United States
This List of cable-stayed bridges in the United States includes notable cable-stayed bridges, both existing and destroyed, in the United States of America, organized by name. A * Abraham Lincoln Bridge * Arthur J. DiTommaso Memorial Bridge * Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge B * Barton Creek Bridge * Bayview Bridge * Benton City – Kiona Bridge * Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge * Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge * Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge C * Cable Bridge * Christopher S. Bond Bridge (Kansas City, Missouri) * Clark BridgeDavid Goodyear and Ralph Salamie, "The Clark Bridge" ''Civil Engineering'', August 1994, accessed 4 August 2009 * |
Fred Hartman Bridge
The Fred Hartman Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in the U.S. state of Texas spanning the Houston Ship Channel. The bridge carries of State Highway 146 (SH 146), between the cities of Baytown and La Porte (east of Houston). The bridge is also expected to carry State Highway 99 (SH 99) (Grand Parkway) when it is completed around Houston. The bridge, named for Fred Hartman (1908–1991), the editor and publisher of the ''Baytown Sun'' from 1950 to 1974, is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Texas, and one of only four such bridges in the state, the others being Veterans Memorial Bridge in Orange County, Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas and Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge in Erath County. It is the 77th largest bridge in the world. The construction cost of the bridge was $91.25 million. The bridge replaced the Baytown Tunnel (of depth clearance ). The tunnel had to be removed when the Houston Ship Channel was deepened to , with a minimum bottom width, to accommodate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Huntington Bridge
The East Huntington Bridge (officially the Frank Gatski Memorial Bridge, also called the East End Bridge or the 31st Street Bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge crossing the Ohio River at Huntington, West Virginia. It carries West Virginia Route 106 on the West Virginia approach and OH 775 on the Ohio approach. The northern approach (from Ohio State Route 7) is the recently extended Ohio State Route 775; its southern terminus is a pair of ramps (northbound on-ramp from Fifth Avenue, southbound offramp to Third Avenue) connecting it to U.S. Route 60. History The history of the span dates to the early 1970s when possible routings for a future Ohio River span were being discussed. To conform to the Huntington city comprehensive plan, the alignment preferred by the city was one that connected to Interstate 64 outside of the city boundaries. Many favored a plan about one mile north of the city along WV 2. Work began on the bridge in 1983 and was completed in August 1985 at a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East 21st Street Bridge
The East 21st Street Bridge is a or or long cable-stayed bridge in Tacoma, Washington completed in January 1997. The bridge, whose most significant feature is two tall towers, carries four lanes State Route 509 (SR 509) across the Thea Foss Waterway from downtown Tacoma to the Port of Tacoma. SR 509 ends at a single point urban interchange with Interstate 705 west of the bridge, built as part of the same $165.3 million WSDOT project that also funded the bridge's construction. The architect for the bridge was Jim Merritt, a Tacoma architect. It is sometimes called Foss Waterway Bridge, although the Murray Morgan Bridge The Murray Morgan Bridge, also known as the 11th Street Bridge or City Waterway Bridge, is a vertical-lift bridge in Tacoma, Washington. It originally opened February 15, 1913, to replace an 1894 swing-span bridge. The bridge connects downtown wi ... also crosses Foss Waterway. References External links Tacoma cable-stayed bridge Bridgehunter * Bridges i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Burnett Bicycle-Pedestrian Bridge
The Don Burnett Bicycle-Pedestrian Bridge, renamed from Mary Avenue Bridge on July 19, 2011, is a cable-stayed bridge over Interstate 280 (California), spanning Cupertino, California and Sunnyvale, California, used for bicycle and pedestrian traffic. It is the only cable-stayed pedestrian bridge over a highway in California. At night the bridge is lit up and can be seen by those driving on Interstate 280. The project was awarded a Helen Putnam Award of Excellence. It also won the California Transportation Foundation's Pedestrian/Bicycle Project of the Year. Construction The bridge was completed in 2008 and it cost $14.8 million. Roughly 80 percent of the funding for the bridge came from grants, bonds and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. The original plan for the bridge was to use concrete to keep costs down, but a steel design was chosen after the bids for a concrete bridge came in too high. Location details North of I-280, Mary Avenue ends in a parking lot and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denver Millennium Bridge
The Denver Millennium Bridge is the world's first cable-stayed bridge using post-tensioned structural construction. Its 200-foot (61 m) white tapered steel mast rises above Denver's northwestern skyline, connected to the bridge deck and foundation anchored by steel cables. The footbridge crosses railroad tracks and the regional light rail system, climbing no higher than 25 feet (8 m) above street level, thereby minimizing the height pedestrians must climb. Located near LoDo (Denver's lower downtown), in Riverfront Park, the Millennium Bridge connects the popular 16th Street Mall with the Commons Park in the Central Platte Valley District of the Union Station neighborhood. The bridge is the first of three pedestrian bridges between Downtown Denver and the Highland neighborhood. Design The name, Denver Millennium Bridge, honors a milestone in time and in Denver's architectural development. To meet the structural challenge of spanning 130 feet (40 m) without a steep increase in e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davenport Skybridge
The Davenport Skybridge is a pedestrian cable-stayed bridge that spans River Drive (Highway 67) in downtown Davenport, Iowa. It connects LeClaire Park to a courtyard and parking ramp on 2nd Street, located near the River Music Experience. The bridge, completed in 2005, is tall, long, and features columns. It was designed by Holabird & Root and Neumann Monson, P.C. At the south end, facing the river, is an observation deck with a view of the Mississippi River, LeClaire Park Bandshell, the Centennial Bridge, and the Davenport Levee, where many festivals take place throughout the warmer months. The inside of the Skybridge contains kaleidoscope A kaleidoscope () is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces (or mirrors) tilted to each other at an angle, so that one or more (parts of) objects on one end of these mirrors are shown as a regular symmetrical pattern when v ... lighting. The lighting consists of 228 LED fixtures and 8,036 individual lights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Florida Times-Union
''The Florida Times-Union'' is a daily newspaper in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Widely known as the oldest newspaper in the state, it began publication as the ''Florida Union'' in 1864. Its current incarnation started in 1883, when the ''Florida Union'' merged with another Jacksonville paper, the ''Florida Daily Times''. A Southeast Georgia edition, called ''The Georgia Times-Union'', serves the Brunswick area. In 1983, Morris Communications of Augusta, Georgia, purchased Florida Publishing Company. ''The Times-Union'' became the largest newspaper of this chain, which owns a number of newspapers around the country. The paper is now owned by Gannett. In 2018, its editor was Mary Kelli Palka, and the editorial page editor was Michael P. Clark. History In 1864, during the American Civil War, J. K. Stickney and W. C. Morrill published the first edition of the ''Florida Union''. It was a Northern and Republican paper, at the time when Jacksonville was occupied by the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dames Point Bridge
The Dames Point Bridge (officially the Napoleon Bonaparte Broward Bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida on the Interstate 295 East Beltway. Construction began in 1985 and was completed in 1989. The main span is , and is high. The bridge was designed by HNTB Corporation and RS&H, Inc. The Massman Construction Company built the bridge. Design The bridge's cables are arranged on multiple vertical planes in a slight modification to the harp (parallel) stay arrangement. Main span cables are paired to anchor into the tower in a vertical plane while side span cables pair up to anchor in a horizontal plane such that four cables anchor in each tower at approximately the same elevation. Superlatives Until the 2003 completion of the Sidney Lanier Bridge in Brunswick, Georgia, the Dames Point Bridge was the only bridge in the United States to feature the harp stay arrangement. It remains one of the largest cable-stayed bridges in the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cochrane–Africatown USA Bridge
The Cochrane–Africatown USA Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge carrying US 90/ US 98 Truck across the Mobile River from the mainland to Blakeley Island in Mobile, Alabama. History The Cochrane–Africatown USA Bridge was completed and opened in 1991. It was named in honor of the 60-year-old vertical-lift Cochrane Bridge (in turn named for president of the Mobile, Alabama Chamber of Commerce at the time, John T. Cochrane, Sr.) that it replaced, and the historic community of Africatown, which was located where the western approach to the bridge was built. In 1997 community activists promoted preservation and designation of the Africatown Historic District to encourage development there. The district was included on Mobile's African American Heritage Trail in 2009. In 2012 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Volkert and Associates, Inc. design for the bridge earned it the Outstanding Engineering Achievement in the U.S.A. Award from the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Bridge
The Clark Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge across the Mississippi River between West Alton, Missouri and Alton, Illinois. Named after explorer William Clark like the bridge it replaced, the cable-stayed bridge opened in 1994. It carries U.S. Route 67 across the river. It is the northernmost river crossing in the St. Louis metropolitan area. The new $85 million, replaced the old Clark Bridge, which was only .David Goodyear and Ralph Salamie, "The Clark Bridge" ''Civil Engineering'', August 1994, accessed 4 August 2009 The was built in 1928. The new bridge carries two lanes of divided traffic in each direction, as well as two bike lanes. The o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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