Crescent City Connection Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Cantilevered through truss bridge over the Mississippi River on eastbound Business US 90 in New Orleans
- Status
- Open to four lanes of eastbound traffic, plus two reversible HOV lanes
- History
- Built 1985
- Design
- Cantilevered through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 1,574.7 ft.
Total length: 3,018.2 ft.
Deck width: 91.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 25.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +29.93667, -90.05833 (decimal degrees)
29°56'12" N, 90°03'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory number
- BH 19079 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 09/2002)
- Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 81.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 65,880