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General Information

Completion: 1927
Status: in use

Project Type

Awards and Distinctions

Location

Location: , , ,
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Crosses:
  • Snake River
Coordinates: 46° 35' 22.23" N    118° 13' 10.19" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

main span 158.5 m
total length 621.82 m
deck width 6.1 m

Materials

piers reinforced concrete
truss steel

Chronology

1927

Bridge is first erected at vantage across the Columbia River.

1968

Re-erected at present location.

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Snake River Bridge (also known as the Lyons Ferry Bridge), is located on State Route 261 at the confluence of the Snake and Palouse Rivers, near Starbuck, Washington, USA. The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and is located next to Lyons Ferry Park.

Original construction

It was originally constructed in 1927 and known as the Vantage Ferry Bridge, where it carried the North Central Highway over the Columbia River in Vantage, replacing a four-car ferry. By 1923, the ferry was transporting 50,000 people across the river annually, and it was clear that a bridge was needed to replace it. Originally planned to be a privately constructed toll bridge, it was strongly opposed by Washington Governor Louis F. Hart because it would be a toll bridge on a taxpayer-supported highway. Not only that, but the state also stood to lose $900,000 in federal funds for the North Central Highway if a toll bridge were to be built. Instead, the state-approved funding for its own bridge.

However, the construction of the Wanapum Dam downriver of the bridge in the 1960s flooded the town of Vantage, and state officials decided to replace the existing two-lane bridge, which had become unsafe for high volume traffic, with a new four-lane bridge. The old bridge was dismantled and put into storage.

Meanwhile, at Lyons Ferry, crossings of the Snake River were done by ferry, but the construction of the Lower Monumental Dam caused the river to slow, thus increasing crossing time. State officials then decided to reconstruct this bridge at that location.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Snake River Bridge" and modified on December 2, 2021 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

Participants

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  • About this
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  • Structure-ID
    20003702
  • Published on:
    18/06/2002
  • Last updated on:
    27/09/2022
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