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The Benjamin Franklin Bridge, originally named the Delaware River Bridge and known locally as the Ben Franklin Bridge, is a suspension bridge across the Delaware River connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey.
U.S. Route 30 (US 30) is a U.S. highway running from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania east to Atlantic City, New Jersey.In the U.S. state of New Jersey, US 30 runs 58.26 miles (93.76 km) from the Benjamin Franklin Bridge at the Delaware River in Camden, Camden County, while concurrent with Interstate 676 (I-676), southeast to Virginia Avenue in Atlantic City, Atlantic County.
Benjamin Franklin Bridge: Pennsylvania–New Jersey, US: 533 m (1,749 ft) 1926–1929: It was the longest suspension span but not the longest span of all bridges. Ambassador Bridge US and Canada: 564 m (1,850 ft) 1929–1931: Since this bridge was built, the record for longest bridge span has only been held by suspension bridges.
The Delaware River Bridge, now the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, was designed to accommodate both rail and road traffic. When it opened on July 1, 1926, it had two outboard structures beside the main roadway for rail and space for two streetcar tracks (never installed) on the main road deck.
In 1955, the existing bridge was renamed Benjamin Franklin Bridge, while the name Walt Whitman Bridge was approved for the new bridge that would open in 1957. By 1966, two more bridges were approved: the Commodore Barry Bridge (opened February 1, 1974) and the Betsy Ross Bridge (opened April 30, 1976). In 1974 and 1990, the Ben Franklin Bridge ...
Benjamin Franklin Bridge: 534 m (1,750 ft) 2,273 m (7,457 ft) Suspension Steel truss deck, steel pylons 3+4 lanes 2 railway tracks 218+534+218: Interstate 676
The bridge has a total length of 8,485 feet (2,586 m), and a main span of 729 feet (222 m). Though originally constructed with eight lanes, the bridge was reduced to six lanes with two shoulders in 2000, a median barrier was also paced on the deck. The bridge is owned and operated by the Delaware River Port Authority.
A bridge's deck height is greater than its clearance below, which is measured from the bottom of the deck structure, with the difference being equal to the thickness of the deck structure at the point with the greatest clearance below. Official figures for a bridge's height are often provided only for the clearance below, so those figures may ...