Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge
47.589841 - 122.269421Koordinaten: 47 ° 35 ' 23.4 " N, 122 ° 16' 9.9 " W
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The Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, also unofficially Third Lake Washington Bridge or Mercer Iceland Bridge, with a length of 1772 m, the fifth longest floating bridge in the world. She leads the westbound carriageway leading and used in alternating direction lanes of Interstate 90 across Lake Washington between Mercer Iceland and Seattle. The bridge is named after Homer More Hadley, who had designed the parallel, half a century earlier Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge built. The bridge was opened on 4 June 1989 for traffic.
With a total of five lanes and three side stripes, the building is the widest pontoon bridge world. Two of the lanes can be used depending on the traffic in both directions, and they are usually released during the week in the mornings west towards Seattle and the remaining time to the east. These lanes are high occupancy vehicle lanes, which may only be used by carpools and vehicles to and from Mercer Iceland.
Among the residents, the official name of the bridge is largely unknown. They call both bridges together often simply Mercer Iceland Bridge or distinguish between the new bridge and old bridge, where this distinction is ambiguous, because the old bridge, the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, after the inauguration of the new Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge was built because it was badly damaged during the renovation work.
Current plans
When the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge was built parallel to the already existing Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, both usable in alternating directions lanes were intended for carpooling to improve the flow of traffic between Seattle and the east shore of Lake Washington. Thus, the moving each in the other direction carpools were forced to use the lanes to public traffic. Due to the increasing traffic density in Seattle, Bellevue and Mercer Iceland this often remained stuck in the traffic jams. The State Department of Transportation Washington checks so the possibilities to improve the situation and plans to reciprocal traffic routing on these lanes by a permanent use in both directions to convert. The project is half funded and the first phase is to be completed in 2009.