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284:, who came to be called the "father of the bridge." Lightfoot began campaigning for the bridge in 1930, enlisting the support of Miller Freeman. Construction began January 1, 1939 and was completed in 1940. The construction cost for the project, including approaches, was approximately $ 9 million. It was partially financed by a bond issue of $ 4.184 million. Opened July 2, 1940, the bridge carried US 10 (later decommissioned and renamed Interstate 90). Tolls were removed in 1949. The bridge sank in a storm on November 25, 1990 during refurbishment and repair. The current bridge was built in 1993. The eponymous Lacey V. Murrow 273: 33: 363: 447: 471: 459: 1350: 87: 335:-year contract awarded to the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company in the amount of $ 3.254 million. It included a movable span that could be retracted into a pocket in the center of the fixed span to permit large boats to pass. This design resulted in a roadway bulge that required vehicles to swerve twice across polished steel joints as they passed the bulge. A 373:
On November 25, 1990, while under re-construction, the original bridge sank because of a series of human errors and decisions. The process started because the bridge needed resurfacing and was to be widened by means of cantilevered additions in order to meet the necessary lane-width specifications of
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with arrow and 'X' signs, compounded the hazard by putting one lane of traffic on the "wrong" side of the bulge during morning and evening rush hours in an effort to alleviate traffic into or out of Seattle. There were many serious collisions on the bridge. The problems grew worse as the traffic
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water into the lake along with tons of bridge material. It sank when one pontoon filled and dragged the rest down, because they were cabled together and there was no way to separate the sections under load. No one was hurt or killed, since the bridge was closed for renovation and the sinking took
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holiday weekend), filled some of the pontoons with rain and lake water. On Saturday, November 24, workers noticed that the bridge was about to sink, and started pumping out some of the pontoons; on Sunday, November 25, a 2,790-foot (850 m) section of the bridge sank, dumping the contaminated
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Tudor Engineering Company for Washington State Highway Commission Department of Highways. Legislative Reconnaissance and Feasibility Report "Lake Washington Bridge Crossings, Parallel Evergreen Point Bridge, North Lake Bridge. December
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of the bridge, and realized that they were over-engineered and the water could be stored temporarily in the pontoons. The watertight doors for the pontoons were therefore removed.
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All of the sinking was captured on film and shown on live TV. The cost of the disaster was $ 69 million in damages. A dozen anchoring cables for the new Hadley bridge were
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The bridge was the brainchild of engineer Homer Hadley, who had made the first proposal in 1921. The bridge came about after intensive lobbying, particularly by
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load increased over the years and far outstripped the designed capacity. Renovation or replacement became essential and a parallel bridge, the
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With the opening of the new bridge, the 49-year-old Murrow Bridge closed on June 23, 1989, for renovation that was projected to take
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The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge (right) and the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge (left) in 2005, looking east toward Mercer Island
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Lange, G. (1999). Lake Washington Floating Bridge is dedicated on July 2, 1940. Washington State Department of Transportation.
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The Murrow Bridge is the second-longest floating bridge in the world, at 6,620 ft (2,020 m) (the longest is the
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Witcher, T.R. (September 2018). "Success in Seattle: The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge and Mount Baker Ridge Tunnel".
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Donald O. Dusenberry, et al. (Feb. 1995). "Failure of Lacey V. Murrow floating bridge, Seattle, Washington."
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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Washington (state)
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was the second director of the Washington State Highway Department and a highly decorated
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and could not be allowed to flow into Lake Washington. Engineers then analyzed the
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The disaster delayed the bridge's reopening by 14 months, to September 12, 1993.
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Construction of the bridge; photo taken one year after start of construction.
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and it was closed for a short time afterward. Westbound traffic was allowed
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Mercer Island History: From Haunted Wilderness to Coveted Community
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Former National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
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and eastbound traffic was resumed in early December.
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Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge–Evergreen Point
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Coordinates
47°35′24″N 122°16′12″W / 47.5899°N 122.27°W / 47.5899; -122.27
I-90
Lake Washington
Seattle
Mercer Island
Washington
Washington State Department of Transportation
Pontoon bridge
floating bridge
Seattle metropolitan area
U.S. state
Washington
Interstate 90 floating bridges
Interstate 90
Lake Washington
Seattle
Mercer Island
Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge
Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge–Evergreen Point
Mount Baker Ridge Tunnel
official City of Seattle landmark
National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark

George Lightfoot
U.S. Air Force
World War II
brigadier general
Washington State College

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