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The Blue Bridge (officially named the Pioneer Memorial Bridge) [1] is a four-lane arch-truss bridge connecting Pasco, Washington to Kennewick, Washington. U.S. Route 395 crosses the Columbia River via this bridge. The name comes from the blue paint used on the truss superstructure, with white paint on the suspension beams.
The Blue Bridge (another Pasco/Kennewick bridge), the Interstate 182 Bridge that connects Pasco with Richland, the U.S. Highway 12 bridge over the Snake River (Pasco/Burbank), and three railroad bridges are the others. However, the Cable Bridge is the only bridge that carries traffic that is not a freeway.
1953 - Regional restaurant chain Zip's Drive In is established in Kennewick. [39] The Blue Bridge. 1954 McNary Dam near Umatilla, Oregon is completed, impounding the Columbia River and inundating parts of the Tri-Cities. July 30: The Blue Bridge, officially named the Pioneer Memorial Bridge, opens. December 28: KEPR begins television broadcasts ...
The Pasco-Kennewick bridge’s $33.5 million paint job is expected to tie up traffic for a year. ... Tri-City drivers could see project-related disruptions on the blue bridge as soon as Feb. 12 ...
The $33.5 million paint project snarled Tri-Cities traffic and forced motorists to learn about zipper merging.
The blue bridge is normally the busiest in the Tri-Cities, carrying about 66,000 vehicles a day. ... which carries Highway 397 between Kennewick and Pasco, and the Glenn Lee-Sam Volpentest bridges ...
A new four-lane divided highway bridge, dubbed the Blue Bridge, opened in 1954 less than 2 miles (3.2 km) upstream from the Green Bridge. [30] The Cable Bridge opened between Kennewick and Pasco in 1978 and was built to replace the Green Bridge. However, demolishing the Green Bridge proved to be controversial.
The blue bridge is currently undergoing a year-long, $33 million repainting project. ... An early morning semi rollover accident just south of the blue bridge in Kennewick is snarling traffic on ...