Snake River Bridge
46.589688888889 - 118.21941388889Koordinaten: 46 ° 35 ' 22.9 "N, 118 ° 13' 9.9 " W
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The Snake River Bridge (also known as Lyons Ferry Bridge known) is situated at the confluence of the Snake River and Palouse River near Starbuck and is the oldest existing Gerber beam steel bridge in the U.S. state of Washington wears The Bridge State Route 261 and was the number 82004207 registered in the National Register of Historic Places. It is located in the vicinity of Lyons Ferry State Park and the Joso - railway bridge.
Original design
The building was originally built in 1926-1927 as Vantage Ferry Bridge and wore the North Central Highway across the Columbia River in Vantage, Washington, where it replaced a ferry for four cars. By 1923, the ferry had 50,000 people set annually over the river, and it was clear that this had to be replaced by a bridge. Originally, the project of a toll bridge, but when Governor Louis F. Hart met with resistance, as it would have been a toll bridge on a highway funded by taxpayers' money. Not only that, but the state would have $ 900,000 federal funding for the North Central Highway lost if the bridge would have been built as a toll. Instead, the state approved to finance their own bridge.
Later, when the construction of Wanapum Dam downstream to the place flooded Vantage, it was decided by the authorities in the Federal Public Administration, to replace the bridge by a four-lane construction, since the old bridge for the increasing strength of the traffic had a no longer sufficient stability. The old bridge was dismantled and stored.
Until the 1960s, the crossing of the Snake River at Lyons Ferry was carried out by a ferry, but the construction of Lower Monumental Dam caused a reduction of the flow rate and therefore an extension of time for translating. The leaders therefore decided at this point to build the embedded bridge. The opening for traffic was 1968.