Washington Bridge

40.846666666667 - 73.927777777778Koordinaten: 40 ° 50 '48 " N, 73 ° 55' 40 " W

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Harlem River

The Washington Bridge is a six-lane road bridge over the Harlem River in New York. It connects Manhattan and the Bronx. You originally led U.S. Highway 1, which runs now on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge.

The total length counting ramps, is 724 m. The steel arch bridge spans 155 m on the Harlem River.

Their clear height is 40 m, the clear width of 108 m.

The truss arch bridge was designed by William R. Hutton and Edward H. Kendall, starting from a design by Charles Conrad Schneider, had to be reduced to $ 3 million its costs. It is a steel structure with brick ramps.

The Washington Bridge was opened on December 1, 1888 for pedestrian traffic. It was planned to release it on February 22, 1889 ( George Washington's birthday and the centenary of his first presidential term ) for motor traffic. However, the full opening was delayed until December.

After the completion of the George Washington Bridge in 1931 the traffic was flowing in the Bronx of this bridge over the Washington Bridge. In the 1940s, people began to build ramps to connect the western end of the bridge, the road tunnels that led to the George Washington Bridge. This allowed vorbeizuschleusen the traffic from New Jersey to the congested streets of upper Manhattan.

The Alexander Hamilton Bridge was the mid-1950s planned to create a direct connection between the Trans - Manhattan and Cross Bronx quick ways proposed by Robert Moses. You should also accommodate the additional traffic that was created by the expansion of the George Washington Bridge by a lower floor with a six-lane road. The completion of the Alexander Hamilton Bridge in 1963 took a large part of the traffic from the Washington Bridge.

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