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The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is classified as a fracture critical bridge, making it vulnerable to collapse if parts of the offshore towers were to fail. [179] [175] The March 2024 collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge raised awareness and concern about other bridges nationwide, especially with ship traffic being diverted to other area ports.
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.
Following several days of lane closures to do emergency repairs, the Washington State Department of Transportation said Thursday morning that all lanes of the westbound Tacoma Narrows Bridge are ...
The Tacoma Narrows (or the Narrows), a strait, is part of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington. A navigable maritime waterway between glacial landforms, the Narrows separates the Kitsap Peninsula from the city of Tacoma. The Narrows is spanned by the twin Tacoma Narrows Bridges (State Route 16). An earlier bridge collapsed shortly after ...
“Switching directions of travel across the state Route 16 Tacoma Narrows Bridge requires miles of traffic control including barrels, cones and signs on both the Tacoma and Gig Harbor sides of ...
On the bridge's 50th anniversary in 2000, a private firm that inspected the span concluded that "it is one of the best for its maintenance and condition" and overall, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge remains one of the best maintained spans in the nation. Today, the bridge serves as the westbound span over the Narrows.
The changes to what Narrows Bridge drivers will pay take effect Oct. 1. ... There were over 13,000 survey responses that the commission reviewed in the month of July.