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Benjamin Franklin Bridge: Other name(s) Ben Franklin Bridge: Named for: Benjamin Franklin: Maintained by: Delaware River Port Authority of Pennsylvania and New Jersey: ID number: 4500010: Characteristics; Design: Steel suspension bridge: Total length: 9,650 feet (2,940 m) Width: 128 feet (39 m) Height: 385 feet (117 m) Longest span: 1,750 feet ...
The Benjamin Franklin Bridge carries seven lanes of roadway, two rail lines of the PATCO Speedline, and two pedestrian walkways. 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 ...
Traffic along the Parkway has decreased considerably because of the completion of Interstate 676 (Vine Street Expressway), linking the Schuylkill Expressway with the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. The roadway was since narrowed somewhat and the sidewalks expanded around Logan Circle. A plan for a greener, more walkable Parkway was released by the ...
Just as New Jersey commuters braced for the annual increase in NJ Transit fare, drivers crossing the Ben Franklin Bridge, Betsy Ross Bridge, Commodore Barry Bridge or the Walt Whitman Bridge to ...
Eakins Oval is a traffic circle in Philadelphia.It forms the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway just in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with a central array of fountains and monuments, and a network of pedestrian walkways.
CAMDEN - More than a year after two workers died in a rail accident atop the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, an investigation still faces a perplexing question.
U.S. Route 30 (US 30) is a U.S. highway running from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania east to Atlantic City, New Jersey.In the U.S. state of New Jersey, US 30 runs 58.26 miles (93.76 km) from the Benjamin Franklin Bridge at the Delaware River in Camden, Camden County, while concurrent with Interstate 676 (I-676), southeast to Virginia Avenue in Atlantic City, Atlantic County.
The Delaware River Bridge, now the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, was designed to accommodate both rail and road traffic. When it opened on July 1, 1926, it had two outboard structures beside the main roadway for rail and space for two streetcar tracks (never installed) on the main road deck.