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The Rodanthe Bridge, commonly called the Jug Handle Bridge, [1] is a 2.4-mile-long (3.9 km) two-lane "jug handle" trestle bridge in Dare County, North Carolina.The bridge carries North Carolina Highway 12 from Rodanthe to the southern point of Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge by going west into the Pamlico Sound and then parallel an area of the Hatteras Island that is prone to coastal ...
A 1956 article in the Asbury Park Press cited a suggestion by the state's top highway planner to add a "jug-handle" on Route 35 to facilitate the flow of traffic. [3] One of the earliest mentions of jughandles in The New York Times is on June 14, 1959, referring to jughandles having been built in New Jersey on U.S. Route 46 in Montville, U.S. Route 22 between North Plainfield and Bound Brook ...
Between 2018 and 2022, a jughandle-shaped bridge bypass of the community of Rodanthe was constructed. The bridge, known as the Rodanthe Bridge, opened on July 28, 2022, and spans 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of the Pamlico Sound. It replaced a section of NC 12 known for frequent closures due to overwash, flooding, and sand accumulation. [27]
Route 35 is a state highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey, primarily traveling through the easternmost parts of Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties. It runs 58.1 mi (93.5 km) from the entrance to Island Beach State Park in Berkeley Township, Ocean County, to an intersection with Lincoln Highway/St. Georges Avenue in Rahway, Union County.
Firefighters and Dallas County Sheriff’s Office traffic deputies worked to rescue a driver in a truck that was hanging off a bridge after crashing on northbound Interstate 35 near Victory Avenue ...
Interstate 35W at Loop 820 in Fort Worth were shut down for several hours Thursday night during a police standoff with a man on an overpass who was live-streaming himself and threatening to jump ...
U.S. Route 35 (US 35) is a United States Highway that runs southeast-northwest for approximately 412 miles (663 km) from the western suburbs of Charleston, West Virginia to northern Indiana. Although the highway is physically southeast-northwest, it is nominally north–south.
They are sometimes called jug handles. [40] These interchanges are very common on toll roads, as they concentrate all entering and exiting traffic into a single stretch of roadway, where toll plazas can be installed once to handle all traffic, especially on ticket-based tollways. A double-trumpet interchange can be found where a toll road meets ...