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The Ciénega Bridge became a heavily traveled section of US 80, which by the early 1950's, had become one of the most dangerous roads in the state of Arizona. Between 1952 and 1955, 11 motorists had been killed in separate car accidents in relation to the eastern bridge approach design.
The Gillespie Dam Bridge (sometimes referred to as the Gillespie Dam Highway Bridge) is a through truss bridge spanning the Gila River in Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. The bridge was constructed to bypass a concrete apron through the river in front of the Gillespie Dam, which was often closed due to flooding. Construction of ...
The only parts of the “New London Bridge” that made it to Arizona were the exterior masonry. The Arizona bridge is a reinforced concrete structure clad in the original masonry of the 1830s bridge. The bridge was completed in 1971 (along with the Bridgewater Channel Canal, separating the peninsula from the mainland), and links mainland Lake ...
The 2,779 bridges in Nebraska that are listed as structurally deficient represent just over 18% of its total number of bridges, and 1,058 bridges are considered to be functionally obsolete.
Top 25 most dangerous cities for speeding ... Freeways, boulevards and bridges run through all parts of the New Mexico city home to over half a million residents. Albuquerque had 8.176 speeding ...
Settled in the southeastern corner of Arizona, Tucson is the second largest community in the Grand Canyon State. Tucson blends ancient culture with modern technology and wide expanses of national ...
The Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge is an arch bridge in the United States that spans the Colorado River between the states of Arizona and Nevada. The bridge is located within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area approximately 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas , and carries Interstate 11 and U.S. Route 93 over the ...
A dam and replacement bridge were built and the river was rerouted. [3] The bridge is 1,184 feet (361 m) long in total, with a deck width of 16 feet (4.9 m). Its main span is a 798 feet (243 m) Warren-type pony truss bridge suspended by cables from rocker type towers. The span is held by two steel cables 5.75 inches (0.146 m) in diameter and ...