General Information
| Completion: | 1961 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge |
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| Structure: |
Bascule bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Seattle, King County, Washington, USA |
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| Carries: |
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| Carries: |
Interstate 5
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| Coordinates: | 47° 39' 10.95" N 122° 19' 20.55" W |
Technical Information
There currently is no technical data available.
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Ship Canal Bridge is a double-deck steel truss bridge that carries Interstate 5 (I-5) over Seattle's Portage Bay (part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, after which it is named) between Capitol Hill and the University District. The canal below connects Lake Union with Lake Washington. Construction was completed in 1961 and the bridge opened to traffic on December 18, 1962. It is 4,429 ft (1,350 meters) long, stands 182 feet above the canal and is 119 feet wide at the upper deck. It was the largest bridge of its kind in the Northwest when it first opened. The bridge is double-decked, with the upper deck carrying traffic in both directions and the lower deck (the express lanes) carrying traffic southbound in the morning and northbound in the afternoon.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Ship Canal Bridge" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Currently there is no information available about persons or companies having participated in this project.
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- : Spanning Washington. Historic Highway Bridges of the Evergreen State. Washington State University Press, Pullman (USA), pp. 161-163.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20051307 - Published on:
04/01/2010 - Last updated on:
27/09/2022
