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General Information

Completion: 1959
Status: in use

Project Type

Awards and Distinctions

1959 Honorable Mention  

Location

Location: , , ,
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Crosses:
  • Mohawk River
Part of:
Coordinates: 42° 47' 29.81" N    73° 45' 41.16" W
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Technical Information

Materials

arches steel

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Thaddeus Kosciusko Bridge, commonly referred to as the Twin Bridges, or just "The Twins", located in the United States, is a pair of identical through arch bridges, made of steel, which span the Mohawk River between the towns of Colonie, Albany County and Halfmoon, Saratoga County, in New York's Capital District. Each span carries three northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 87 between exits 7 and 8. The toll-free bridge opened in 1959 as part of the Adirondack Northway, a 176-mile highway linking Albany and the Canada–United States border at Champlain. The Interstate 87 section of the highway was formally inaugurated by Governor Nelson Rockefeller on May 26, 1961.

The bridge is named (using an anglicized form) in honor of Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817), the preeminent national figure in Poland's fight for independence. Kościuszko arrived in Colonial America a month after the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence and remained a notable military leader throughout the Revolutionary War, attaining the rank of general as well as honorary American citizenship. He returned to Poland in July 1784.

The decks on both sides of the bridge were replaced in the spring of 2013.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Thaddeus Kosciusko Bridge" and modified on 5 May 2021 according to the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

Participants

Design
Steel construction

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  • About this
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  • Structure-ID
    20016046
  • Published on:
    10/04/2005
  • Last updated on:
    29/04/2021
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