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The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a pair of twin suspension bridges that span the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound in Pierce County, Washington.The bridges connect the city of Tacoma with the Kitsap Peninsula and carry State Route 16 (known as Primary State Highway 14 until 1964) over the strait.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, with a main span of 2,800 feet (850 m), was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world at that time, following the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York City, and the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco with Marin County to its north.
5 Further reading. 6 External links. ... Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1950) East bridge: 853 m (2,800 ft) 1,822 m (5,978 ft) Suspension Steel truss deck, steel pylons 3 lanes
Alan Thomas thought about Hawaii as he sat in traffic during the recent emergency repairs on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Crews on Kauai switch the direction of one of the lanes during rush hour on ...
The bridge was redesigned and rebuilt in 1950 to carry westbound traffic. Another bridge was completed to carry eastbound traffic in 2007. In response to concerns after the failure of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940 and a major San Francisco Bay windstorm in 1951, the Golden Gate Bridge, for which Moisseiff had served as a consulting engineer ...
Letters to the editor on Tacoma Narrows Bridge tolls, expansion of the Attorney General’s Office and a Pierce County councilmember’s record. | Opinion
A pedestrian was reported in the roadway on the bridge’s east end beginning at 3:54 p.m. today, causing the right lane to be blocked, according to a post on the WSDOT Tacoma X account.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Ruins (Galloping Gertie) 1940 1992-08-31 Tacoma: Pierce: Suspension: Toppenish–Zillah Bridge: 1947 1995-05-24 Toppenish