Hart Bridge

Isaiah D. Hart Bridge
The Hart Bridge from the south bank
Coordinates	30°18′54″N 81°37′36″W / 30.315°N 81.626666666°W / 30.315; -81.626666666Coordinates: 30°18′54″N 81°37′36″W / 30.315°N 81.626666666°W / 30.315; -81.626666666
Carries	US 1 Alt. / SR 228 (four general purpose lanes)
Crosses	St. Johns River
Locale	Jacksonville, Florida
Official name	Isaiah David Hart Bridge
Maintained by	Florida Department of Transportation
ID number	720107
Characteristics
Design	Continuous truss bridge
Total length	1171.7 meters (3844 feet)
Width	19.7 meters (65 feet)
Longest span	331.6 meters (1088 feet)
Clearance above	6.14 meters (20.1 feet)
Clearance below	42.9 meters (141 feet)
History
Opened	November 2, 1967 (1967-11-02)

The Isaiah David Hart Bridge is a truss bridge that spans the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida. It carries U.S. Route 1 Alternate/State Road 228. It is named after Isaiah Hart, the founder of Jacksonville. It was designed by Sverdrup & Parcel.^[1]

Details

The bridge has traditionally been painted green and is often referred to as "The Green Monster" by locals.^[2]^[3] The westbound end of the bridge delivers drivers to downtown Jacksonville or Martin Luther King Expressway, while the eastbound end sends motorists to Beach Boulevard. Daily traffic is 47,000 vehicles. The stretch of highway between downtown and Beach Blvd. is known as the Commodore Point Expressway, but more commonly referred to by locals as the Hart Bridge Expressway.

The bridge is a steel cantilever bridge which is a type of continuous truss bridge. The bridge's main span is uncommon for a cantilever bridge in that the truss over the main channel tapers upward and the roadway below is suspended from the truss by steel hangers.

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References

↑ Durkee, Jackson, "World's Longest Bridge Spans", National Steel Bridge Alliance, May 24, 1999
↑ "SUNDAY MORNING RIVER RUNNER". Jacksonville.com.
↑ Jax Air News

External links

St. Johns River crossings in the Jacksonville, Florida area

Upriver from Downtown	Shands Buckman Timuquana

Downtown Jacksonville	Fuller Waren FEC Strauss Trunnion Acosta Main Street Hart Mathews 20th Street Extension

Downriver from Downtown	Dames Point State Road 113A Mayport Ferry

Italics indicate a bridge was never built.

Crossings of the St. Johns River

Upstream
Main Street Bridge

Hart Bridge

Downstream
Mathews Bridge

Notable bridges and tunnels in Florida

Panhandle	Escambia Bay Garcon Point John Gorrie Mid-Bay Pensacola Bay St. George Island Trammell Victory

North	Acosta Bridge of Lions Main Street Buckman Dames Point Fuller Warren Hart Mathews Memorial Strauss Trunnion Thomas B. Manuel Blue Heron Flagler Memorial

West Central	Bayside Blackburn Point Bridge^‡ Clearwater Memorial Courtney Campbell Gandy Howard Frankland Pinellas Bayway Sunshine Skyway Treasure Island

East Central	A. Max Brewer Astor Bennett Bert Dosh Broadway Eau Gallie Granada Melbourne Merritt Island NASA Osteen Pineda Port Orange Roosevelt Sebastian Inlet Wabasso Merrill P. Barber Alma Lee Loy Whitehair

South	Broad Coral Springs^† Julia Tuttle John F. Kennedy Lehman MacArthur Rickenbacker Snow-Reed^‡ Venetian

Southwest	Boca Grande^‡ Bonita Beach Caloosahatchee Cape Coral Edison John Ringling Matanzas Pass Midpoint Sanibel S.S. Jolley

Keys	Bahia Honda Card Sound Jewfish Creek Long Key Overseas Highway Seven Mile

Tunnels	Henry E. Kinney Port of Miami

Ferries	Drayton Island Fort Gates Mayport

^† – Covered bridge ^‡ – Swing bridge See also: List of bridges in Florida

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Cinemas	Sun-Ray Cinema

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Theatres	Alhambra Dinner Theatre Florida Theatre Ritz Theatre Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Jacksonville UNF Fine Arts Center

Other	Freebird Live Metropolitan Park Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center

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Outdoor shopping centers	Jacksonville Landing Gateway Town Center Shoppes of Avondale River City Marketplace St. Johns Town Center

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State and Federal	Amelia Island State Park Anastasia State Park Big Talbot Island State Park Castillo de San Marcos National Monument Fort Caroline National Memorial Fort Clinch State Park Fort George Island Cultural State Park Fort Matanzas National Monument George Crady Bridge Fishing Pier Kingsley Plantation Little Talbot Island State Park Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park Pumpkin Hill Creek Preserve State Park Timucuan Preserve Yellow Bluff Fort Historic State Park

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