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The bridge, named for Fred Hartman (1908–1991), the editor and publisher of the Baytown Sun from 1950 to 1974, is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Texas, and one of only four such bridges in the state, the others being Veterans Memorial Bridge in Orange County, Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas and Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge in Erath ...
The Fred Hartman Bridge had been designed to replace the Baytown Tunnel (of depth clearance 40 feet (12.2 m)), [4] which had to be removed when the Houston Ship Channel was deepened to 45 feet (13.7 m), with a minimum 530 feet (161.5 m) bottom width, to accommodate larger ships.
The route then interchanges SH 225 before crossing at the Fred Hartman Bridge over the Houston Ship Channel; from 1953 to 1995, SH 146 crossed under the Houston Ship Channel via the Baytown Tunnel. In Baytown , the highway forms one of its business routes and then interchanges SH 330 before looping east.
Fred Hartman Bridge: 381 m (1,250 ft) 4,185 m (13,730 ft) Cable-stayed Composite steel/concrete deck, concrete pylons Twin bridges 2x4 lanes 147+381+147:
Fred Hartman Bridge; H. Houston Ship Channel; W. Washburn Tunnel; William P. Hobby Airport This page was last edited on 3 December 2017, at 23:48 (UTC). Text is ...
Baytown connects to I-10 via State Highways 99 and 146, and the Fred Hartman Bridge connects SH 146 southwest to La Porte. The city of Baytown is located at the mouth of the San Jacinto River on Galveston Bay , 26 miles (42 km) by road east of Houston .
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When the Baytown Tunnel was removed in 1997 to allow deepening and widening of the Houston Ship Channel (it was replaced by the Fred Hartman Bridge), it was the largest tunnel so removed (35 feet (11 m) diameter by 1,041 feet (317 m) length) without closing the channel, losing time due to accidents, or impacting the navigational safety of the port.