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The backup extends about 1 mile into the Tacoma side of the bridge and 3.5 miles into the Gig Harbor side. It’s not immediately clear what caused the traffic backup.
“We’ve reopened all lanes across the westbound SR 16 Tacoma Narrows Bridge,” WSDOT posted on social media Thursday morning. “The lane closures were in place to allow for emergency repairs ...
Tacoma Narrows Bridge: Tacoma, Washington: United States 7 November 1940: Road bridge, cable suspension with plate girder deck Aerodynamically poor design resulted in aeroelastic flutter: 0 killed, 0 injured (1 dog killed) Bridge completely destroyed, no persons killed. One dog killed and three vehicles lost.
The delays began at 6:46 p.m., according to the state Department of Transportation.
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The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, with a main span of 2,800 feet (850 m), was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world at that time, following the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York City, and the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco with Marin County to its north.
Alan Thomas thought about Hawaii as he sat in traffic during the recent emergency repairs on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Crews on Kauai switch the direction of one of the lanes during rush hour on ...
The Armistice Day Blizzard (or the Armistice Day Storm) took place in the Midwest region of the United States on November 11 (Armistice Day) and November 12, 1940.The intense early-season "panhandle hook" winter storm cut a 1,000-mile-wide (1600 km) swath through the middle of the country from Kansas to Michigan.