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A toll bridge until 1979, its common name is the 520 bridge or Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. It was the longest floating bridge in the world until 2016. This bridge was removed in Spring, 2017. [5] SR 520 Albert D. Rosellini Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (2016 bridge) Completed 2016. Spans 7,710 feet (2,350 m).
In 1979, the longest floating bridge crossing salt water, the Hood Canal Bridge, was subjected to winds of 80 miles per hour (130 km/h), gusting up to 120 miles per hour (190 km/h). Waves of 10–15 feet (3.0–4.6 m) battered the sides of the bridge, and within a few hours the western 3 ⁄ 4 mile (1.2 km) of the structure had sunk. [ 59 ]
Notes. ^ The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge held the record of the longest bridge span in the world from 1964 to 1981.[1] ^ At the time of its opening in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge was the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world,[4] titles it held until 1964 and 1998 respectively.
The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the 520 Bridge and officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, carries Washington State Route 520 across Lake Washington from Seattle to its eastern suburbs. The 7,710-foot-long (2,350 m) floating span is the longest floating bridge in the world, [ 3 ] as well as the world's widest ...
At 7,869 feet (1.490 mi; 2.398 km) in length (floating portion 6,521 feet (1.235 mi; 1.988 km)), it is the longest floating bridge in the world located in a saltwater tidal basin, and the third longest floating bridge overall. [3] It opened in 1961 and was the second concrete floating bridge constructed in Washington.
The Murrow Bridge is the second-longest floating bridge in the world, at 6,620 ft (2,020 m) (the longest is the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge–Evergreen Point, a few miles north on the same lake). The original Murrow Bridge opened in 1940, and was named the Lake Washington Floating Bridge.
From Seattle, SR 520 crosses Lake Washington on the six-lane Evergreen Point Floating Bridge; at 7,710 feet (2,350 m), it is the longest floating bridge in the world. [7] Tolls are collected electronically using the state's Good to Go pass or by mail, and vary based on time of day and the vehicle's number of axles.
Laughery Creek Bridge, Dearborn County; only known example of a Triple Whipple Truss bridge in the world. Lincoln Memorial Bridge, downtown Vincennes to Illinois (old US 50) Parke County Covered Bridges. Sherman Minton Bridge, New Albany to Louisville, Kentucky. William H. Natcher Bridge, Rockport to Owensboro, Kentucky.