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A two-month repaving project on the Mackinac Bridge is expected to reduce traffic to one lane in each direction and lead to traffic backups and delays, especially during the weekends, the Mackinac ...
The Mackinac Bridge Authority reported a partial bridge closure amid high winds Tuesday evening, with vehicle types and speed limited.
The Mackinac Bridge will close to traffic between 2:30-3 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 29 and Wednesday, Nov. 30 for replacement of the bridge’s backup power system.
The bridge opened on November 1, 1957, [10] connecting two peninsulas linked for decades by ferries. At the time, the bridge was formally dedicated as the "world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages", allowing a superlative comparison to the Golden Gate Bridge, which has a longer center span between towers, and the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, which has an anchorage in the middle.
[8] [9] The structure, unlike the rest of the state highways in Michigan like I-75, is under the maintenance and control of the Mackinac Bridge Authority (MBA). [a] The authority collects a toll from traffic that crosses the bridge, [16] which as of January 1, 2012, is $4 for passenger cars and $5 per axle for commercial vehicles and motorhomes ...
The bridge is another spandrel arch structure 60 feet (18 m) in length and built in 1920. Increasing traffic along Mackinac Trail prompted the MSHD to "widen its deck by five feet [1.5 m] and install new guardrails in the 1929–1930 biennium" along with the addition of decorative retaining walls. [92]
The Mackinac Bridge has reopened after falling ice forced its closure for several hours Sunday, according to the Mackinac Bridge Authority.
The magazine Paraplegia News, in an article encouraging its readers to visit Mackinac Island, called the trek around the island on M-185 a "high priority" for visitors. [19] The trip around the island "provides a photo opportunity at every bend in the path", according to the PSA Journal, the official magazine of the Photographic Society of America.