PCAD - State of Washington, Department of Transportation (WSDOT), Tacoma Narrows Bridge #3, Tacoma, WA

Structure Type: built works - infrastructure - transportation structures - bridges

Tacoma, WA

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Highway 16 spanning Tacoma Narrows between Tacoma and Gig Harbor, WA;

This bridge was built to add highway lanes linking Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula, an area of rapid population growth in Puget Sound. The $849 million bridge has been dealyed in its completion; it was set to open in 04/2007, then 07/2007, and later 08/2007. When finished, this bridge and Tacoma Narrows Bridge #2 (finished in 1950) will function simultaneously, the new bridge handling eastbound traffic, the old, westbound. The third bridge is 5,400 feet long. The first driver used the bridge at 4:01 AM on Monday, 07/16/2007.

Parsons Transportation Group provided most of the engineering design expertise for this bridge. Engineering details, field work, and spinning and cable-wrapping equipment was done by NSKB, a consortium between Japanese steel maker, Nippon Steel Corporation and Kawada Industries, Incorporated.

PCAD id: 3321

Publications

"New Tacoma Narrows Bridge open to traffic", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, B3, 07/17/2007. "The final deck section is put into place on 2nd Narrows bridge", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, B2, 02/01/2007. "100-ton piece makes its way to Narrow bridge", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, B4, 03/31/2007. Lange, Larry, "Narrows Bridge toll could be first of many", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, A1, A6, 07/14/2007. "Narrowing the gap on the bridge", Seattle Times, B1, 10/05/2006.

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SR 16 New Tacoma Narrows Bridge

State of Washington, Department of Transportation (WSDOT), Tacoma Narrows Bridge #3, Tacoma, WA (2007)

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