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The Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA), officially the Delaware River Port Authority of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, is a bi-state agency instrumentality created by a congressionally approved interstate compact between the state governments of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The bridge is owned and operated by the Delaware River Port Authority. When approaching the exits from I-95 in Philadelphia for the bridge, drivers see signs referring to NJ Route 90. Beyond the toll plaza, which is on the New Jersey side, Route 90 continues as an expressway with maximum speed limit of 50 mph (80 km/h), and in a few miles ends ...
This is a list of bridges, ferries, and other crossings of the Delaware River and Delaware Bay from the Atlantic Ocean upstream to the confluence of the East Branch and West Branch at Hancock, New York. There are no tunnels under the Delaware (excepting utilities), and no dams crossing the full width of its main stem.
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Delaware River: Locale: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Gloucester City, New Jersey [1] Official name: Walt Whitman Bridge: Maintained by: Delaware River Port Authority of Pennsylvania and New Jersey: ID number: 4500010: Characteristics; Design: Steel suspension bridge: Total length: 11,981 feet (3,652 m) [1] Width: 92 feet 2 inches (28.09 m) [1 ...
The Delaware River Bridge Joint Commission, now the Delaware River Port Authority, was created in 1919 to find a permanent solution. [ 3 ] The chief engineer of the bridge was Polish-born Ralph Modjeski , [ 4 ] the design engineer was Leon Moisseiff , [ 5 ] the supervising architect was Paul Philippe Cret , [ 5 ] and the construction engineer ...
In 2009, the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA, parent agency of PATCO) announced that it was commissioning a design plan for renovating, modernizing and reopening the Franklin Square station. [5] As of December 2016: Projections now are at about 1,500 [riders] a day…
The Mid-Delaware Bridge, sometimes known as the Port Jervis–Matamoras Bridge or the Fourth Barrett Bridge, is a continuous truss bridge which carries U.S. Route 6 (US 6) and US 209 across that river between those two communities and thus the states of New York and Pennsylvania. It is the only four-lane bridge on the upper main stem of the ...