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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.
I-295 begins at I-95, I-495, US 202, and DE 141 near Newport, Delaware, and heads east over the Delaware River on the Delaware Memorial Bridge into New Jersey.The highway intersects the southern terminus of the New Jersey Turnpike and runs northeast through suburban areas of South Jersey parallel to the turnpike, providing a bypass of Philadelphia and Camden.
Construction on an interchange with the Delaware Memorial Bridge approach at Farnhurst began on July 12, 1950. [61] On August 16, 1951, the Delaware Memorial Bridge opened to traffic. [62] US 40 was rerouted to use the new Delaware Memorial Bridge to cross the Delaware River, being realigned to follow US 13 north from Hares Corner to Farnhurst ...
Factoryville Tunnels, 2,250 feet (690 m), east tunnel built in 1851, west tunnel built in 1883, both abandoned in 1915. (Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad,) Factoryville to Nicholson [15] Falls Cut Tunnel, CSX Transportation
In 1937, Sussex County and the rest of Delaware were mired in the Great Depression, and Meigs told the Rotary club, “One-third of the $10,000,000 cost of the project will be paid out in wages ...
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.
U.S. Route 22 (US 22) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that stretches from Cincinnati, Ohio, in the west, to Newark, New Jersey, in the east.In Pennsylvania, the route runs for 338.20 miles (544.28 km) between the West Virginia state line in Washington County, where it is a freeway through the western suburbs of Pittsburgh, and then runs east to Easton and the Pennsylvania ...
The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge (formerly the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge) is a suspension bridge that spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky. When opened on December 1, 1866, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world at 1,057 feet (322 m) main span, [ 3 ] which was later overtaken by John A ...