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Evergreen Point Floating Bridge

King County, Washington
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Overview
Pontoon bridge over Lake Washington on SR 520
Location
Seattle, King County, Washington
Status
Open to traffic
Future prospects
Slated for demolition and replacement.
History
Built 1963
Design
Pontoon
Dimensions
Span length: 7,518.4 ft.
Total length: 7,518.4 ft. (1.4 mi.)
Deck width: 51.8 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Also called
Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge
Lake Washington Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+47.64250, -122.27333   (decimal degrees)
47°38'33" N, 122°16'24" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
10/554579/5276822 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Seattle North
Inventory number
BH 48138 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 07/2011)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 9.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
97,870

Categories 

Built 1963 (140)
Built during 1960s (1,215)
Doomed (803)
Floating (14)
Have street view (9,889)
King County, Washington (141)
NR-eligible (3,749)
Open (28,310)
Over a mile long (192)
 Owned by state (9,808)
Pontoon (14)
Seattle, Washington (22)
Span length over 1000 feet (105)
Structurally deficient (16,677)
Through truss (9,205)
Total length over 2500 feet (587)
Truss (23,568)
Washington (843)

Update Log 

  • November 11, 2012: New photo from David Backlin
  • February 15, 2011: Updated by Nathan Holth: This bridge is now doomed.
  • February 15, 2011: Added by Jason Smith

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Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
Posted November 22, 2012, by Clark Vance (cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com)

Looking at the cars, in 1963 there would have been at least a couple of tail fins!

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
Posted November 22, 2012, by Adam Ratliff (Adam [at] ratliffs [dot] me)

The photo above is NOT the Evergreen Point Bridge. Rather, this is a historic photo from the opening of the original Lacy Murrow floating bridge a few miles to the south in 1940.

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
Posted November 14, 2012, by K. A. Erickson

Work continues on the new floating bridge, despite cracks in pontoons, other issues.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019676918_pontoons14m.html

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
Posted February 15, 2011, by Nathan Holth

Jason, here is the project website: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/SR520Bridge/

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
Posted February 15, 2011, by K. A. Erickson

The are putting tolls on this starting in April. The idea now in Washington State is to toll before, during, and after the new bridge is complete, as opposed to building and then tolling. Other ideas include tolling I-90 or WA 522 as they fear commuters angry about shelling out (or technically being zapped) $3.50 each way will go around it.

They have recruited former TV personality Bill Nye for PR ads about loving the tolls.

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
Posted February 15, 2011, by Jason Smith (JDSmith77 [at] gmx [dot] net)

C'mon, Nathan! Everytime a truss bridge is posted on this website, you post that it is doomed. Every through truss bridge is doomed because of some undisclosed reason. I mean JC!!! You better have a good explanation for this!

;-) JS