East 21st Street Bridge
The East 21st Street Bridge is a 682-foot (208 m) or 707-foot (215 m) or 992-foot (302 m) 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.
The architect for the bridge was Jim Merritt, a Tacoma architect.
It is sometimes called Foss Waterway Bridge, although the Murray Morgan Bridge also crosses Foss Waterway.
References
- ^ "SR-509 at Thea Foss Waterway", National Bridge Inventory, Federal Highway Administration, 0014507A0000000
- ^ Foss Waterway Bridge, Columbia, MD: VStructural LLC, 2013
- ^ David Wilma (January 30, 2003), "Cable-stayed bridge over Tacoma's Thea Foss Waterway opens on January 22, 1997", HistoryLink, Seattle: History Ink
- ^ WSDOT Bridge List (PDF), Washington State Department of Transportation, October 2013, p. 371, M 23-09.06
- ^ Portfolio: SR-509 cable stay bridge info sheet (PDF), Merritt Architecture, retrieved 2015-07-09
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 21st Street Bridge.
- Tacoma cable-stayed bridge, Bridgehunter
- "SR-509 Foss Waterway Bridge". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
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