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The Hoover Dam Bypass project was completed within budget at a cost of $240 million; the bridge portion cost $114 million. [ 4 ] The bridge was the first concrete-steel composite deck arch bridge built in the United States, [ 5 ] and incorporates the widest concrete arch in the Western Hemisphere.
View of Hoover Dam from Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge The bypass in front of the dam Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge as visible from Hoover Dam. There are two lanes for automobile traffic across the top of the dam, which formerly served as the Colorado River crossing for U.S. Route 93. [117]
US 93 was realigned again on October 19, 2010, when the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge over the Black Canyon of the Colorado River opened to vehicular traffic. With that, the highway no longer passes over Hoover Dam, and the state-maintained portion of the replaced route was renamed as Hoover Dam Access Road . [12]
On this day 80 years ago, a crowd of 20,000 people gathered in Nevada to watch President Franklin Delano Roosevelt commemorate the completion of the Hoover Dam
While the state highway designation ends at this point, the Hoover Dam Access Road continues eastward, passing the Mike O'Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge Plaza, the Hoover Dam visitor center, and then crosses the dam itself into Arizona. However, it only runs a short distance in that state before looping through a new parking area at ...
A bridge that is a part of the highway bypass around the Hoover Dam, spanning the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona, bears O'Callaghan's name, as well as that of former NFL Arizona Cardinals player and U.S. Army veteran Pat Tillman. Tillman died in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan.
Colorado River Bridge may refer to: Mike O'Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge , spanning the Colorado River just downstream of Hoover Dam Colorado River Bridge (De Beque, Colorado) , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Mesa County, Colorado
William Herman Hietamaki was identified as a missing John Doe 15 years after his remains were found near Hoover Dam. (Mohave County Sheriff's Office) November 11, 2009, was an ordinary day for two ...