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As part of the opening ceremonies, the bridge was certified as the world's longest floating bridge by Guinness World Records, at 7,708.49 feet (2,349.55 m) long; [36] the bridge took the record from the previous Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, which was 130 feet (40 m) shorter in length. [37]
The SR 520 Albert D. Rosellini Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, which opened in 2016 as the replacement for another floating bridge at the same site, [7] [8] is the longest floating bridge in the world.
The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, and commonly called the SR 520 Bridge or 520 Bridge, was a floating bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that carried State Route 520 across Lake Washington, connecting Medina with the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle. The bridge's total length was ...
The Murrow Bridge is the second-longest floating bridge in the world, at 6,620 ft (2,020 m) (the longest is the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge–Evergreen Point, a few miles north on the same lake). The original Murrow Bridge opened in 1940, and was named the Lake Washington Floating Bridge.
From Seattle, SR 520 crosses Lake Washington on the six-lane Evergreen Point Floating Bridge; at 7,710 feet (2,350 m), it is the longest floating bridge in the world. [7] Tolls are collected electronically using the state's Good to Go pass or by mail, and vary based on time of day and the vehicle's number of axles.
Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, which carries the highway's eastbound traffic and is the second longest floating bridge in the world; Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, which carries the highway's westbound traffic and is the fifth longest floating bridge in the world; it is planned to also carry light rail trains
[17] [22] The two floating bridges connect Seattle to the Eastside suburbs and are among the longest in the world, at 5,811 feet (1,771 m) and 6,603 feet (2,013 m) in length, respectively. [ 23 ] From the east end of the bridge, I-90 continues onto Mercer Island and travels under the Mercer Island Lid , a landscaped park built atop a curved ...
The Aurora Bridge (officially called the George Washington Memorial Bridge) is a cantilever and truss bridge in Seattle, Washington, United States. It carries State Route 99 ( Aurora Avenue North) over the west end of Seattle 's Lake Union and connects Queen Anne and Fremont .