Facts
- Overview
- Vertical lift bridge over Hackensack River on Truck US 1/US 9 in Jersey City
- Location
- Hudson County, New Jersey
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1954; rehabilitated 2003
- Design
- Vertical lift
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 222.1 ft.
Total length: 1,480.1 ft.
Deck width: 73.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.2 ft.
- Inventory numbers
- NJ 0905152 (New Jersey bridge number)
BH 25231 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 11/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 69.3 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 54,500
Comments
US 1-9 Truck Hackensack River Bridge
US 1-9 Truck Route Hackensack River Bridge, aka "Lincoln Highway Bridge", lift span built in 1954. Simliar design to the 1948 William Stickel Bridge on Interstate 280 in Newark, NJ.
This is where on Christmas night, 2005 two Jersey City policemen died when their truck fell off the open bridge as they were guarding traffic (the traffic signals that night were broken).
