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The Hernando de Soto Bridge is a tied-arch bridge carrying Interstate 40 across the Mississippi River between West Memphis, Arkansas, and Memphis, Tennessee. The design is a continuous cantilevered cable-stayed steel through arch, with bedstead endposts. Memphians also call the bridge the "New Bridge", [2] as it is newer than the Memphis ...
Description. The bridge consists of five Warren through trusses, each with a length of 790 feet (240 m). Combined with the approach segments, the bridge's total length is 5,222 feet (1,592 m). Completed in 1949, it is the only bridge spanning the Mississippi River designed to carry exclusively vehicular traffic that was built before 1950.
The Frisco Bridge (center) in 1985. It is flanked by the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge (left) and Harahan Bridge (right) / 35.12861°N 90.07639°W / 35.12861; -90.07639. The Frisco Bridge, previously known as the Memphis Bridge, is a cantilevered through truss bridge [2] carrying a rail line across the Mississippi River between West Memphis ...
The Tennessee Department of Transportation announced that the I-55 Mississippi River Bridge will close down to ... When will the I-55 Memphis to Arkansas bridge be closed? The closure will take ...
The Memphis to Arkansas I-55 bridge will close for two weeks to continue construction. On Sunday, the Tennessee Department of Transportation announced that the I-55 Mississippi River Bridge will ...
The Mississippi River [b] is the primary river, and second-longest river, of the largest drainage basin in the United States. [c] [15] [16] From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it flows generally south for 2,340 miles (3,766 km) [16] to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico.
Hernando de Soto Bridge: I-40: Memphis and West Memphis: 1973 ... Memphis & Arkansas Bridge: I-55, Mississippi River Trail, US 61 / US 64 / US 70 / US 79: 1949
The old bridge on I-55 from Memphis to Arkansas, the main thoroughfare with the Hernando De Soto bridge still closed for construction on Wednesday, June 2, 2021.