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Cooper River Bridges. The Cooper River Bridge Run is a 10-kilometer (6.2 mi) one-way road running event across the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge held in the cities of Mount Pleasant and Charleston in South Carolina, on the first Saturday in April (had been first Sunday of April in 1978, first Saturday in April from 1979 to its last running in 2019, unless that Saturday is Holy Week).
The cable-stayed Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge (or "New Cooper River Bridge") opened to traffic on July 16, 2005, to replace the two older bridges. Demolition of the Grace and Pearman bridges began shortly afterwards and was completed in late 2007. A popular 10k run across the bridge is held each spring, and is known as the Cooper River Bridge Run.
The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge (colloquially referred to as the Ravenel Bridge and the Cooper River Bridge [3]) is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, US, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The bridge has a main span of 1,546 feet (471 m), the third longest among cable-stayed bridges in the Western ...
Nobody was injured after a motorist drove on the pedestrian walkway of a South Carolina bridge on Monday. Charleston Police Department officers were dispatched at approximately 1:30 p.m. to the ...
The crew of a large container ship lost control of the vessel in South Carolina on Wednesday, causing officials to temporarily close Charleston’s iconic bridge - with memories of the Baltimore ...
A large cargo ship lost control of its engines and went nearly full throttle through a South Carolina harbor Wednesday, prompting the closure of one of the busiest bridges in the state. Harbor ...
The bridge was designated as the Cooper River Bridge. The bridge had cost $6 million to build, and had two 10 ft (3.0 m) lanes. After four hours of free service, a toll was implemented, fifty cents per car and driver, plus fifteen cents per additional passenger. In 1929, South Carolina Highway 40 was routed over the bridge.
The General William C. Westmoreland Bridge connects the city of North Charleston with the West Ashley area of Charleston in South Carolina. Composed of twin spans, it carries two lanes of Interstate 526 in each direction across the Ashley River and the surrounding marshes. It is often referred to as simply the "Westmoreland Bridge".