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Gallery: 10 Iconic Bridges of America
Leonie Wharton Jul 07, 2018

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Golden Gate Bridge
ich Niewiroski Jr.

Architect: Irving Morrow

Built: 1933-1937

Height: 746 ft
Length: 8,981 ft
Date opened: May 27, 1937
Location: San Francisco, Calif.
Daily traffic: 112,000 vehicles

Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Gary Hymes

Architects: J.E. Greiner Company

Built: 1949-1973

Height: 354 ft (eastbound), 379 ft (westbound)
Length: 22,790 ft
Date opened: July 30, 1952 (eastbound), June 28, 1973 (westbound)
Location: Maryland
Daily Traffic: 70,000 vehicles

O’Callaghan Tillman Memorial Bridge
Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz)

Architects: T.Y. Lin International

Built: 2005-2010

Height: 890 ft
Length: 1,900 ft
Date opened: Oct. 16, 2010
Location: Boulder City, Nev.
Daily Traffic: 16,000 vehicles

Penobscot Narrows Bridge
Bruce C. Cooper

Architects: FIGG (Figg Engineering Group)

Built: 2003-2006

Height: 447 ft
Length: 2,120 ft
Date opened: Dec. 30, 2006
Location: Verona Island, Maine
Daily Traffic: 10,000 vehicles

George Washington Bridge

Architects: Othmar Ammann and Cass Gilbert

Built: 1927-1931/1962

Height: 604 ft
Length: 4,760 ft
Date opened: October 24, 1931 (upper level), August 29, 1962 (lower level)
Location: New York/New Jersey
Daily traffic: 282,000 vehicles

Brooklyn Bridge

Architect: John Augustus Roebling

Built: 1869-1883

Height: 276.5 ft
Length:  5,989 ft
Date opened: May 24, 1883
Location: New York City, New York
Daily traffic: 102,000 vehicles

Bixby Creek Bridge
Ian McWilliams (CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Architects: Frederick W. Panhorst, Charles H. Purcell, and Harvey D. Stover

Built: 1931-1932

Height: 280 ft
Length: 714 ft
Date opened: November 27, 1932
Location: Big Sur, Calif.
Daily Traffic: 5,000 vehicles

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
Glenn from Houston, USA (CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Architects: Palmer & Baker, Inc.

Built: 1955-1956/1969

Height: 50 ft
Length: 126,122 ft
Date opened: Aug. 30, 1956 (southbound), May 10, 1969 (northbound)
Location: New Orleans, La.
Daily traffic: 33,000 vehicles

Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge
Patrick Feller

Architect: Santiago Calatrava

Built: 2005-2012

Height: 400 ft
Length: 1,870 ft
Date opened: March 29, 2012
Location: Dallas, Tex.
Daily traffic: 42,000 vehicles

Royal Gorge Bridge
Hustvedt (CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL, from Wikimedia Commons)

Architect: George E. Cole

Built: 1929-1929

Height: 1,053 ft
Length: 1,260 ft
Date opened: Dec. 8, 1929
Location: Cañon City, Colo.
Daily Traffic: 1,000 vehicles

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