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Due to the Mississippi River's winding course through the New Orleans area (the river is flowing north at the place where the two bridges cross), the bridge contains two wrong-way concurrencies, with the eastbound span carrying Business US 90 West, while the westbound span carries Business US 90 East. The Crescent City Connection was the fifth most traveled toll bridge in the United States in ...
Nov 11, 2018 · A long time coming. Calls for a bridge at New Orleans began as early as the 1820s and mounted as cities far up the river, starting with Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Illinois, spanned their ...
Mar 12, 2017 · Bridge officials Charles S. Macauley, left, Henry Etter and Albert V. Labiche check the Greater New Orleans bridge -- later renamed the Crescent City Connection -- for damange following a river ...
Jan 6, 2017 · Instead, in 1836, the city’s Anglo-Americans convinced the state legislature to split New Orleans into pieces—three semi-autonomous municipalities divided along ethnic lines. For more than 15 ...
Modjeski and Masters concluded that the most economical design would be a cantilevered through-truss bridge featuring a main span of 1,575 feet in length. The bridge would also include a vertical navigational clearance of 150 feet. It was estimated that the bridge would cost $52.5 Million and be ready for traffic by the fall of 1958.
Oct 9, 2019 · The current name of the bridge was chosen as the result of a contest following the completion of the second bridge (which created a one-way couplet of bridges here) in 1988. The name Crescent City Connection Bridge applies to both bridges. The name Greater New Orleans Bridge applied to the original bridge when it was built.
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As expected, New Orleans’ first river bridge was a hit. Within a few years, more than 35,000 vehicles crossed daily, and after tolls were lifted in May 1964, usage jumped to 52,000 per day.
