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Benjamin Franklin Bridge: Other name(s) Ben Franklin Bridge: Named for: Benjamin Franklin: Maintained by: Delaware River Port Authority of Pennsylvania and New Jersey: ID number: 4500010: Characteristics; Design: Steel suspension bridge: Total length: 9,650 feet (2,940 m) Width: 128 feet (39 m) Height: 385 feet (117 m) Longest span: 1,750 feet ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; ... Benjamin Franklin Bridge: 534 m (1,750 ft) 2,273 m (7,457 ft) Suspension Steel truss deck ...
Aerial night view of three Delaware River crossings: the Betsy Ross Bridge crossing from Bridesburg to Pennsauken Township, New Jersey (right), the Tacony–Palmyra Bridge (lower left), and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge (upper right) Construction began in 1969, and was completed in 1974.
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 ...
The Benjamin Franklin Bridge eastern tower at 380 ft (120 m) is tallest structure in Camden RCA Victor buildings and City Hall View to 330 Cooper, Mitchell Courthouse, Wilson Building, and City Hall. Camden, New Jersey is located on the Delaware River in the Delaware Valley/Philadelphia metropolitan area in the US.
CAMDEN - More than a year after two workers died in a rail accident atop the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, an investigation still faces a perplexing question.
Following the opening of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia, residents of Delaware and New Jersey began to advocate a crossing of the river in the area of Wilmington, Delaware. As commercial pressures mounted, a ferry service began, as an interim measure, to run in 1926, near the bridge's current location.
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.