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The Department was formed in 1951 as the Delaware Memorial Bridge Police Department. After a compact between the states of Delaware and New Jersey was signed in 1962, the Delaware River and Bay Authority (DRBA) was created. The compact authorized the DRBA to operate the Delaware Memorial Bridge and to form its own police force.
Aerial image of Delaware Memorial Bridge (left), Wilmington, Delaware (top right), 2012 The Delaware Memorial Bridge is a dual-span suspension bridge crossing the Delaware River . The toll bridges carry Interstate 295 and U.S. Route 40 and is also the link between Delaware and New Jersey .
It is the last crossing of the Delaware River between New Jersey and Pennsylvania; the next crossing, to the south, is the Delaware Memorial Bridge between New Jersey and Delaware. Walt Whitman Bridge – The most heavily traveled of the four bridges, the Walt Whitman Bridge connects South Philadelphia to Gloucester City, New Jersey.
The paper reports the Delaware Memorial Bridge is undergoing a $93 million retrofit to its piers to avoid a calamity, which includes concrete buttresses called “dolphins.”
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The Delaware Memorial Bridge opened in 1951, and US 40 was rerouted north along US 13 before heading east along the bridge approach, with Delaware Route 273 (DE 273) extended east along the former route into New Castle. In 1959, the Delaware Memorial Bridge approach became a part of I-295.
Any proposed crossings of the Delaware River were put on hold during World War II. Delaware drivers were left without a convenient way to cross the river until the Delaware Memorial Bridge near ...