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The bridge and its sibling the Sagamore Bridge were constructed beginning in 1933 by the Public Works Administration for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which operates both the bridges and the canal. Each bridge carries four lanes of traffic over a 616-foot (188 m) main span, with a 135-foot (41 m) ship clearance.
Cape Cod Canal: Locale: Bourne, Massachusetts (Sagamore Beach-Cape Cod) Maintained by: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Characteristics; Design: Arch bridge with suspended deck: Total length: 1,408 ft (429 m) Width: 40 ft (12 m) Height: 275 ft (83.82 m) Longest span: 616 ft (188 m) Clearance below: 135 ft (41 m) History; Construction start: 1933 ...
It contains a majority of the Barnstable Town offices and two important shopping districts: the historic downtown Main Street and the Route 132 Commercial District, including Cape Cod Mall and Independence Park, headquarters of Cape Cod Potato Chips. Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis is the largest on Cape Cod. Hyannis is a major tourist destination ...
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Here's what we learned from a MassDOT open house on preliminary designs for new Sagamore and Bourne bridges across the Cape Cod Canal.
There are currently two automobile bridges and one railway bridge that cross the Cape Cod Canal, each of which opened in 1935. An earlier set of bridges, also two for automobiles and one for rail traffic, opened between 1911 and 1913. Construction of the Cape Cod Canal began in 1909; the canal initially opened in 1914 and was completed in 1916.
US 6 east (Sagamore Bridge) to Route 6A east – Sagamore, Hyannis, Provincetown: Continuation east; southern end of US 6 concurrency: 0.3: 0.48: 1A: US 6 west / Meetinghouse Lane – Buzzards Bay, Falmouth: Northern end of US 6 concurrency; signed as exits 1A (Meetinghouse) and 1B (US 6) northbound; Meetinghouse Lane signed as Scusset Beach ...