East 21st Street Bridge

East 21st Street Bridge
Coordinates 47°14′38″N 122°25′55″W / 47.244°N 122.432°W / 47.244; -122.432Coordinates: 47°14′38″N 122°25′55″W / 47.244°N 122.432°W / 47.244; -122.432
Carries 4 lanes of SR 509
Crosses Thea Foss Waterway
Locale Tacoma, Washington, United States
Characteristics
Design Cable-stayed bridge
Total length 682 ft (208 m) or more
Width 72 ft (21.9 m)[1]
Height 180 ft (55 m)
Longest span 503 m (1,650 ft)
History
Opened January 22, 1997 (1997-01-22)
East 21st Street Bridge
Location in Washington (state)

The East 21st Street Bridge is a 682-foot (208 m)[2] or 707-foot (215 m)[3] or 992-foot (302 m)[1][4] long cable-stayed bridge in Tacoma, Washington completed in January, 1997. The bridge, whose most significant feature is two 180-foot (55 m) tall towers, carries four lanes State Route 509 (SR 509) across the Thea Foss Waterway from downtown Tacoma to the Port of Tacoma. SR 509 ends at a single point urban interchange with Interstate 705 west of the bridge, built as part of the same $165.3 million WSDOT project that also funded the bridge's construction.[3]

The architect for the bridge was Jim Merritt, a Tacoma architect.[3][5]

It is sometimes called Foss Waterway Bridge, although the Murray Morgan Bridge also crosses Foss Waterway.

References

  1. 1 2 "SR-509 at Thea Foss Waterway", National Bridge Inventory (Federal Highway Administration), 0014507A0000000
  2. Foss Waterway Bridge, Columbia, MD: VStructural LLC, 2013
  3. 1 2 3 David Wilma (January 30, 2003), Cable-stayed bridge over Tacoma's Thea Foss Waterway opens on January 22, 1997, HistoryLink
  4. WSDOT Bridge List (PDF), Washington State Department of Transportation, October 2013, p. 371, M 23-09.06
  5. Portfolio: SR-509 cable stay bridge info sheet (PDF), Merritt Architecture, retrieved 2015-07-09

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