Brooklyn Bridge

14 lanes (8 upper, 6 lower)

The six-lane George Washington Bridge was completed on October 25, 1931, eight months ahead of schedule, at a cost of $59 million and 12 lives. First named the "Hudson River Bridge," other names for the bridge had been considered, including the "Palisades Bridge," "Fort Lee Bridge," "Columbus Bridge" and "Verrazano Bridge," before the Port Authority decided upon the "George Washington Memorial Bridge" in 1930. Later, the name was shortened to "George Washington Bridge." When constructing the George Washington Bridge, Ammann had foresight to allow for additional future growth. The median was reserved for either two additional lanes for vehicular traffic, or two light rail tracks. The Port Authority chose the former option, and in 1946, it increased the capacity of the bridge to eight lanes, and installed a movable median barrier to maximize peak-period flow during rush hours. (By 1970, as cross-Hudson traffic increased in both directions, the Port Authority replaced the moveable barrier with a permanent median barrier on the upper deck.) In 1955, after nearly a decade of explosive traffic growth, Robert Moses chaired the Joint Study of Arterial Facilities between the Port Authority and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority. The Joint Study was developed to spearhead construction of new bridges and expressways, including an unbuilt Hudson River Bridge between 125th Street in Manhattan and Edgewater, New Jersey. One of the proposals called for the addition of a six-lane lower level to the George Washington Bridge.

Construction of the $20 million lower deck began in 1959. The construction of the lower deck followed Ammann's original design. Without interruption to the eight traffic lanes above, 76 structural steel sections were hoisted onto the bridge from below. The lower deck was designed with a minimum clearance of 15 feet between the upper and lower deck roadways. Even with the addition of the lower deck, the bridge had a clearance of 213 feet over the Hudson River. Stiffening trusses were incorporated into the design of the lower deck to provide additional stability against torsion. The additional weight required a slight adjustment on the rollers atop the towers.

The Port Authority and other agencies allocated an additional $60 million for the construction of new approach roads, including the Trans-Manhattan Expressway and Alexander Hamilton Bridge (both part of I-95) on the New York side, and the Bergen-Passaic Expressway (which includes parts of I-95 and I-80) on the New Jersey side. The lower deck and new approach roads were completed on August 29, 1962.

Yes. You can walk across the Brooklyn Bridge with your dog. For a dog to walk in public in New York City, he must have: (1) a leash no longer than 6 feet; (2) proof of yearly rabies vaccine; and, (3) a valid dog license. If the dog poops, the owner must pick the poop up or be subject to a hefty fine.

the harbour bridge is made up of steel and approximately 6.5 million rivets

16 workers died during the construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge.

On the Manhattan side, the foot of the bridge is at City Hall Park. City Hall Park is one block east and one block north of the World Trade Center site.

On the Brooklyn side, it is located between New Dock Street and the River Cafe, in between the Brooklyn Heights and Vinegar Hill neighborhoods.

There are eight cables in the Brooklyn Bridge.

Bricks concrete and steel.

Brooklyn Bridge is a proper noun. Proper nouns are the unique names of people, places, or things. Common nouns are the words for general things. If a common noun is part of a name, it becomes a proper noun. Pronouns always replace proper and common nouns.

Steel wire rope.

No. The subway trains to and from Brooklyn run on their own elevated lines. They do not use the Brooklyn Bridge. The bridge is for cars, buses, trucks, and pedestrian traffic only.

There used to be trolleys that ran across the Brooklyn Bridge, but that was only from 1898 to 1950. The old BRT line also ran over the bridge and just barely into Manhattan, to its last stop, but that was around a hundred years ago.

Construction began in early January of 1870 (although some sources say late December of 1869), and it opened on May 24, 1883.

The Brooklyn bridge was Finished in 1883. =]

cassions were in the way

The East River .

The Manhattan Bridge is in between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Williamsburg Bridge. All three of these bridges transverse the East River and connect Brooklyn to the East Side of Lower Manhattan.

On the Manhattan side, the Manhattan Bridge is in Chinatown, and on the Brooklyn side, it's in DUMBO (an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) in between Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, and Vinegar Hill.

Yes, as long as it's less than 11 feet tall

The Brooklyn Bridge has come to be a symbol of New York City.

the function of bridges is to give access to people and moving vehicles to places which beforehand were not avalible to access in the first place. eg to cross a river and get to the other side.

Before the Brooklyn Bridge was built, there was no way to cross the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan, or Manhattan to Brooklyn, except by boat. Traveling between them was extremely inconvenient.

There was a ferry system, but it was unable to accommodate large numbers of people. The ferries were simply too small and too slow, and there were not enough of them (and adding more of them to the fleet would have overcrowded traffic on the river). So it was impossible for people to commute back and forth on a significant scale.

Furthermore, in the winter, the East River sometimes froze, making ferry travel impossible. Since the ice rarely froze solid enough to walk over, traveling over the river was virtually impossible. It was said that it was easier to travel from Albany to Manhattan (Albany is the state capital, in upstate New York) than it was to travel between Brooklyn and Manhattan in the winter.

The Brooklyn Bridge changed all that. It made commuting much easier; it was now possible for large numbers of people to live in Brooklyn, but work in Manhattan. This was impossible before the bridge was built, since the ferry system wasn't equipped to carry large numbers of commuters at once, and because in the winter, ferry service was limited or nonexistent.

It is not a coincidence that the five boroughs -- which at the time were separate counties or cities -- incorporated into one city in 1898, only 5 years after the bridge opened. The Brooklyn Bridge helped bind the boroughs together into one city.

Like, twenty to twenty-five dollars, not including tip and extra fees (like the $1 surcharge on weekdays from 4 PM to 8 PM, and the 50-cent surcharge from 8 PM to 6 AM every day, and the 50-cent New York State tax).

The Brooklyn Bridge is 5,989 feet long. The George Washington Bridge is 4,760 feet long.

the Brooklyn bridge was made of a suspension Bridge.