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The Arlington Memorial Bridge, often shortened to Memorial Bridge, is a Neoclassical masonry, steel, and stone arch bridge with a central bascule (or drawbridge) that crosses the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. First proposed in 1886, the bridge went unbuilt for decades thanks to political quarrels over ...
The northbound span was originally named the 14th Street Bridge when it opened in 1950, renamed the Rochambeau Bridge eight years later, and renamed the Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge in 1985 for a passenger of Air Florida Flight 90, who died in 1982 saving others from the freezing water.
Arlington Memorial Bridge: Washington, D.C. George Mason Memorial Bridge: I-395 ... Wendell Del Hester Memorial Bridge US 220 / WV 28 / WV 55 (S. Main Street)
By June 30, 1929, the Arlington Memorial Bridge's western abutment was finished (except for exterior masonry facing), and many of the concrete columns for the Boundary Channel Bridge were also finished. [23] By the end of June 1930, some additional filling in of Columbia Island was all that was needed to finish the Arlington Memorial Bridge.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge, more commonly known as the Key Bridge, is a six-lane reinforced concrete arch bridge carrying U.S. Route 29 (US 29) across the Potomac River between the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia, and the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Completed in 1923, it is Washington's oldest surviving road bridge across the Potomac River.
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Replaced older bridge slightly downstream [33] N. Sycamore Street 1971 [8] [34] Washington & Old Dominion Trail/Banneker Park: Prior to 1981 In 2020 the railings on the bridge were replaced. [35] Falls Church N. Van Buren Street 2018 Replaced older bridge [36] US 29 (N. Washington Street) Arlington–Falls Church Driveway to Arlington Fire ...
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