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Detillion Bridge: Unknown: May 24, 1939: Spokane River: Cause: Collision—Tractor-trailer collision on deck [21] Allen Street Bridge also called Kelso-Longview Bridge: 1906: Jan 3, 1923: Cowlitz River: Cause: Some combination of storm, collision, overloading. Deadliest Washington bridge disaster with at least 17 deaths. [22] Wenatchee Avenue ...
The Tri-Cities’ busiest Columbia River span, the blue bridge, is getting a $33.5 million paint job. The painting project won’t alter the blue bridge’s famous color, but it will snarl traffic ...
The Hood Canal Bridge suffered catastrophic failure in 1979 during the February 13 windstorm. During the night, the bridge had withstood sustained winds of up to 85 mph (137 km/h) and gusts estimated at 120 mph (190 km/h), and finally succumbed at about 7:30 a.m. on February 13.
Hood Canal is spanned by the Hood Canal Bridge, the third longest floating bridge in the world at 6,521 feet (1,988 m). According to the Washington State Department of Transportation , the Hood Canal Bridge is the only floating bridge in the United States constructed on saltwater, [ 10 ] although there are others, such as Nordhordland Bridge ...
The original bridge would also close to traffic during sustained wind gusts of 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) or higher for more than 15 minutes. [3] Due to increased traffic generated by rapid growth of the Eastside area, bridge replacement was explored as early as 1969, when building a parallel span was explored and rejected. [5]
A bridge typically lasts 75 years, according to the blog post. In Washington, the average state-owned vehicle bridge is 51 years old. The Carbon River Bridge was built in 1921, and it cost $500,000.
wsdot.wa.gov /travel /washington-state-ferries Washington State Ferries ( WSF ) is a public ferry system in the U.S. state of Washington . It is a division of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and operates 10 routes serving 20 terminals within Puget Sound and in the San Juan Islands .
They’ve since finished the work, and the bridge opened May 11, 2024 The cost for the project, including work on state Route 16 and state Route 302 , is about $40 million.