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Tacoma Narrows Bridge

General Information

Completion:	14 October 1950
Status:	in use

Location:	Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA
Crosses:	Puget Sound
Next to:	New Tacoma Narrows Bridge (2007)
Replaces:	Galloping Gertie (1940)
Coordinates:	47° 16' 5.86" N 122° 33' 2.47" W

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14 October 1950	Opened to traffic.

Engineering

Construction

Hunter, Mark / Irwin, Peter A / Stoyanoff, Stoyan / Xie, Jiming (2005): Tacoma Narrows 50 years later—wind engineering investigations for parallel bridges. In: Bridge Structures, v. 1, n. 1 (March 2005), pp. 3-17.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1573248042000274551
Hobbs, Richard / Holstine, Craig: Spanning Washington. Historic Highway Bridges of the Evergreen State. Washington State University Press, Pullman (USA), pp. 203-204.
Scott, Richard (2001): In the Wake of Tacoma. Suspension Bridges and the Quest for Aerodynamic Stability. ASCE Press, Reston (USA).
Hobbs, Richard S.: Catastrophe to Triumph. Bridges of the Tacoma Narrows. Washington State University Press, Seattle (USA).
Hunter, Mark / Irwin, Peter / Stoyanoff, Stoyan / Xie, Jiming: Wind tunnel testing of the parallel Tacoma Narrows Bridges. Presented at: Steelbridge 2004, Millau, 23-25 June 2004, pp. 55-56.