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To this end, he supported the construction of a bridge across the Brunswick River, near the island, [7] that would reduce the travel distance between the city of Brunswick and the island by 14 miles (23 km). [1] The bridge would be located immediately south of the city's downtown and about 5.4 mi (8.7 km) upstream from the river's mouth. [8]
State Route 70 (SR 70) is a 43.1-mile-long (69.4 km) state highway that travels southwest-to-northeast through portions of Coweta and Fulton counties in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The highway connects Newnan with the west-central part of Atlanta.
On November 7, 1972, at 9:50 p.m. EST, three sections of the Sidney Lanier Bridge across the Brunswick River in Brunswick, Georgia, United States, collapsed after a cargo ship, the SS African Neptune, struck the bridge. The collapse affected roughly 450 feet (140 m) of the bridge and caused 24 people and ten motor vehicles to fall into the river.
The current 7,780-foot-long cable-stay bridge built to replace the old vertical-lift one opened in 2003 with extra safety measures, according to Tom Boyd, chief communications officer for the ...
The Brunswick River [1] is a 6-mile-long (10 km) [2] tidal river in Glynn County, Georgia. It begins at the confluence of the South Brunswick River with the Turtle River southeast of Brunswick [ 3 ] and flows east to St. Simons Sound , the strait between Saint Simons Island to the north and Jekyll Island to the south.
Brunswick (/ ˈ b r ʌ n z w ɪ k / BRUN-zwik) is a city in and the county seat of Glynn County in the U.S. state of Georgia. [4] As the primary urban and economic center of the lower southeast portion of Georgia, it is the second-largest urban area on the Georgia coastline after Savannah and contains the Brunswick Old Town Historic District.
A mountainous mostly unpaved route existed from 1949-1986 following what is today Old Hwy. 2 and forest roads that included a westward extension to Fort Oglethorpe over former county roads and what was previously GA 148. Another portion along Warwoman Road in Rabun County was built for GA 2, but did not become part of the route. SR 3: 351.00: ...
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