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The Murrow Bridge is the second-longest floating bridge in the world, at 6,620 ft (2,020 m) (the longest is the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge–Evergreen Point, a few miles north on the same lake). The original Murrow Bridge opened in 1940, and was named the Lake Washington Floating Bridge.
A toll bridge until 1946, its common name is the I-90 bridge or Lake Washington Floating Bridge. It was the first floating bridge longer than a mile, and at the time was the longest floating structure in the world. It is now the second longest floating bridge in the world. Hood Canal Bridge. Completed 1961. Spans 6,521 feet (1,988 m).
West Seattle Bridge c. 1918 [56] (Spokane Street Bridge) [58] c. 1918 [58] 1924: Swing bridge: Duwamish West Waterway: Spokane Street: West Seattle Bridge (1924) West Spokane Street Bridge (1924) (Bridge No. 1; North Bridge; westbound traffic after 1930) [56] 1924: 1978: Bascule: Duwamish West Waterway: Spokane Street: West Seattle Bridge (1984 ...
Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, which carries the highway's eastbound traffic and is the second longest floating bridge in the world; Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, which carries the highway's westbound traffic and is the fifth longest floating bridge in the world; it is planned to also carry light rail trains
The westbound lanes travel on the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, the fifth longest floating bridge, and the eastbound lanes travel on the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, the second longest floating bridge. The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, originally called the Lake Washington Floating Bridge, opened on July 2, 1940. [182]
Cantilevered 1,104 feet over the dramatic Tarn Gorge, the Millau Viaduct is the world’s tallest bridge. Here’s how this wonder of the modern world was built.
This was made possible by the 1940 construction of the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge across Lake Washington, as well as the later construction of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge in 1963; additional traffic later led to the construction of an additional bridge paralleling the Murrow bridge, Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, as well as the ...
The bridge opened in June 1989 and was named in 1993 for Homer More Hadley, who designed the bridge's companion span, the parallel Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge. [3] Hadley also designed the McMillin Bridge in Pierce County. [4] It originally carried bidirectional traffic while the older Murrow Bridge underwent extensive renovations. [5]