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Squirrel Creek Bridge: 1916–1917 2010-9-3 Shawnee vicinity: Pottawatomie: State Highway 78 Bridge at the Red River: 1937, 1938 1996-12-20 Ravenna: Bryan: K-truss through bridge State Highway 79 Bridge at the Red River: 1939 1996-12-20
The bridge at night, 2014. On May 15, 2002, the United States Department of Transportation approved a plan for the Oklahoma City Crosstown realignment. Included in the plan was the requirement that the city build a pedestrian bridge to cross Interstate 40. [2] [3] In 2008, Oklahoma City mayor Mick Cornett announced a design competition for the ...
The Red River Bridge War of 1931 was a boundary conflict between Oklahoma and Texas over an existing toll bridge and a new free bridge crossing the Red River. A joint project to build a free bridge between Durant, Oklahoma and Denison, Texas turned into a major dispute when the Governor of Texas blocked traffic from entering his state on the ...
The US 77 James C. Nance Memorial Bridge [3] connecting Purcell and Lexington [4] was originally built as a circa 1938 deck truss two-lane bridge and in 2019 rebuilt as a concrete pier four-lane bridge [5] crossing the Canadian River and the BNSF Railway between Purcell and Lexington, Oklahoma. [6] The bridge designated on the list of state ...
The State Highway 78 Bridge at the Red River replaced a suspension bridge that collapsed on January 15, 1934. The former bridge had been opened as a toll bridge in July 1927. It was purchased by Oklahoma and Texas for use as a free bridge. [3] It collapsed in a storm after the swinging bridge's wire cables became twisted and snapped. [3]
Survey No. Name (as assigned by HAER) Status Type [2] Built Documented Carries Crosses Location County Coordinates OK-2: Bridge over Bird Creek Abandoned
The Oklahoma City Crosstown Expressway, aka I-40 Crosstown, is a roughly five-mile (8.0 km) stretch of Interstate 40 (I-40) just south of Downtown Oklahoma City, running along the Oklahoma River between Agnew Avenue and the I-40/I-35/I-235 Crossroads of America junction. Prior to 2012, the I-40 Crosstown was an elevated stretch that bisected ...
The bridge is of the camelback truss design and is composed of three spans, each 265 feet (81 m). Each of these spans are the longest in Oklahoma. [2] Until 1992, the bridge had a wooden deck. In 1992, the bridge's deck was destroyed by arson, closing it for two years. When the bridge reopened, it had a concrete and asphalt driving surface. [3]