Mid-Delaware Bridge
41.371666666667 - 74.697777777778Koordinaten: 41 ° 22 ' 18 "N, 74 ° 41' 52 " W
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Four lane U.S. 209 6/US
The Mid- Delaware Bridge, sometimes called Port Jervis - Matamoras Bridge or Fourth Barrett Bridge, is a 201 m long steel bridge with continuous truss structure over the Delaware River between Port Jervis, New York and Matamoras, Pennsylvania in the United States. It leads U.S. Highway 6 and U.S. Highway 209 over the river, which here forms border between the two states. It is the only bridge on the upper reaches of the river with four lanes.
History
The current bridge was built in 1939 by R. C. Ritz Construction Company built and is so far the last building in the long history of river crossings between the two places. The construction costs amounted to 380,000 U.S. dollars ( inflation-adjusted 6.625 million U.S. dollars) The first compound was a railway bridge that made the Milford and Matamoras Railroad building in the middle of the 19th century to end a dispute with the larger Erie Railroad, since the latter did not comply with statutory obligations to build a bridge at the site that results in both the railway and a road across the river. It was intended to finish the bridge in 1852, the failed attempt by the railway company to have to explain the law to be unconstitutional, delayed the start of construction until this year, 1854, the bridge was finished.
This building was destroyed by a storm in 1870. The directors of Milford and Matamoras Railroad complained to Jay Gould, as the Erie Railroad shows no interest in rebuilding the bridge immediately. Gould said that the company had sold his rights to the bridge to another company. This turns out to be a dummy company. A new railway bridge was built a little further upstream.
Business people from Port Jervis, led by Charles St. John, were frustrated by the delays and founded the Barrett Bridge Company to make planning a suspension bridge by John A. Roebling. This bridge had two spans of 325 m each foot (99 m) and was released in 1872. In March 1875 upriver broke an ice barrier and the resulting flood inundated the recently completed railway bridge it. Some segments of the bridge came from the Barrett Bridge, so that it has been damaged. Parts of the bridge deck were 40 km swept downstream, but remained largely intact. They were brought back and installed within a few weeks.
This building existed until its destruction during the heavy floods in October 1903. The bridge company had a short time later to build a new building that was built in a similar manner as the present bridge. The building was acquired in 1922 by the newly formed Joint Interstate Bridge Commission, whose purpose was the management of the common bridges along the Delaware River; at this time the toll was abolished. The toll house in Port Jervis still stands and is part of a restaurant.
The Barrett Bridge was finally decommissioned in the late 1930s, as the volume of traffic had increased sharply trucks and passenger vehicles, and therefore, the present bridge was built. It was until the construction of Interstate 84, the only bridge in the area. As part of this highway a new bridge was built in the 1960s, less than two kilometers downriver. The Mid- Delaware Bridge proved to be more resistant than their predecessors, as they survived the flood in 1955 after the passage of Hurricane Diane. During a flood in 2006, the bridge has been blocked because the access roads were flooded on both sides.
In June 2007, the Bridge Commission released 550,000 U.S. dollars in order to renew the rear walls of the bridgeheads and a dam.