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The bridge was originally painted by a commercial painting company owned by David A. Salkind, of Philadelphia, which also painted the Golden Gate Bridge. [4] The bridge opened to traffic on July 1, 1926, three days ahead of its scheduled opening on the nation's 150th anniversary.
The Holme Avenue Bridge is a closed-spandrel concrete arch bridge that carries Holme Avenue across Wooden Bridge Run (a tributary of Pennypack Creek) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation, it should not be confused with the other "Holme Avenue Bridge" over Pennypack Creek about ...
This is a list of the major current and former bridges in the United States. ... Length Type Carries Crosses ... 51: Lewis and Clark Bridge (Ohio River) 366 m (1,201 ...
Each bridge was to be built by male inhabitants of the surrounding area; those who failed to appear were to be fined 20 shillings. In 1970, the bridge earned an award by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Philadelphia Section, as an outstanding engineering achievement and a historic civil engineering landmark. A bronze plaque was placed ...
Passyunk Avenue Bridge; Pencoyd Bridge (Pennsylvania) Pennsylvania Railroad, Connecting Railway Bridge; Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Mule Bridge; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Bridge at West Falls; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Schuylkill River Viaduct; Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Bridge No. 1
The longest bridge between Philadelphia and New Jersey is the Walt Whitman Bridge, which connects South Philadelphia to Gloucester City, New Jersey. The Walt Whitman Bridge opened in 1957, with a total length of 11,981 feet (3,652 m) and main span length of 2,000 feet (610 m).
Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Bridge in Athens Township: 1913 June 22, 1988 removed August 22, 2012: Athens: Bradford: Pennsylvania (petit) truss Highway Bridges Owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation TR
It has a total length of 13,912 feet (4,240 m), and a main span of 1,644 feet (501 m), making the bridge the fourth longest cantilever bridge in the world, and the longest in the United States. [5] The road has a total of five lanes, divided by a zipper barrier , which was added to the bridge in 2002, in which a machine can configure the number ...