Pasco–Kennewick Bridge (1922)
46.218403 - 119.103814Koordinaten: 46 ° 13 ' 6.3 "N, 119 ° 6' 13.7 " W
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The Pasco - Kennewick Bridge or Benton - Franklin Inter- County Bridge, locally known as the Green Bridge, was a Gerber beam steel bridge, which spanned the Columbia River in the center of the U.S. state of Washington. She joined the cities Pasco and Kennewick and was the first of three Gerber girder bridges that were built in the 1920s on the Columbia River. After the construction of the Cable Bridge in 1978 was followed by a multi-year dispute over the demolition, which finally took place in 1995.
Construction
The building was completed after only a year of construction 1922. It replaced a car ferry, which could translate only six vehicles when driving. Originally the bridge had been planned as early as 1913 by BB Horrigan, but funding could be secured until 1919, when Charles G. Huber sold securities worth 49,000 U.S. dollars by the Union Bridge Company. It was the first bridge of this magnitude, which was fully financed by the sale of shares. In the first nine years of existence, the payment of a toll was charged for driving on the bridge. The toll was abolished after the original construction costs were paid.
The construction of the bridge was considered a milestone in the development of the economy of Washington. The importance of the bridge is partly due to the expectations of citizens on both sides of the river and throughout the state, which saw the opening as a historic event - a gala event with speeches, Motorcade, picnics, street events and parades. The Kennewick Courier - Reporter wrote, "On the day the bridge opened to traffic were opened, a new era dawned for both communities. "
The bridge was one of the main links across the Columbia River, and became a part of the transcontinental Yellowstone Trail, and was the first time that the eastern and western half of the state cooperated in about what both sides brought benefits.
The state of Washington bought the bridge in 1931 and incorporated it in 1933 in the national road network of the state a.
Demolition
After the completion of the Cable Bridge preservationists were successful in their efforts to register the building on the National Register of Historic Places. Therefore came the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the Federal Highway Administration agreed ( FHWA ) that a referendum should be held, if the state wants to demolish the building. The citizens of both Pasco and Kennewick voted in 1980 for the demolition and so prompted the review by the FHWA, if there was an alternative use for the building, and thus to preserve it from demolition. Preservationists submitted to the Authority a proposed alternative, the FHWA decided, however, that none of these proposals was feasible or wise. In the following case the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington ruled in favor of the FHWA. The case was then heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the earlier decision was discarded. The FHWA has been instructed to carry out a more thorough investigation.
The FHWA, however, still clung to their previous statements, and in 1995 the bridge was demolished. Only a single pillar was preserved and serves as a vantage point from which the newer bridge can be seen.