Gramercy Bridge
Coordinates: 30 ° 2 ′ 47 " N , 90 ° 40 ′ 22" W.
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| Official name | Veterans Memorial Bridge | |
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 Louisiana Highway 3213
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| Crossing of | Mississippi River | |
| place | Gramercy, Louisiana | |
| construction | Cantilever bridge | |
| overall length | 945 m | |
| Number of openings | three | |
| Longest span | 445 m | |
| Clear height | 50 m | |
| completion | 1995 | |
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The Gramercy Bridge , officially the Veterans Memorial Bridge , to distinguish it from other Veterans Memorial Bridges usually Veteran's Bridge in Gramercy called, is a road bridge over the Mississippi River , which the lying on the left bank location Gramercy in St. James Parish , Louisiana , United States with connects the sparsely populated farmland of St. John the Baptist Parish on the western side of the river. Gramercy was a center of sugar cane cultivation and is the seat of the Colonial Sugar Mill . Today, the facilities of the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Plant are located nearby .
The four-lane bridge is used for regional traffic, the next bridge upstream is the Sunshine Bridge 30 km away , and the next downstream is the Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge 45 km away .
The Louisiana Highway 3213, which runs over the bridge, connects the West Airline Highway ( US Highway 61 ) on the left with the Louisiana Highway 3227 on the right side of the river.
The Gramercy Bridge, opened in 1995, is a steel truss - cantilever bridge with tanner girders . The main bridge is 945 m long. The middle of the three openings has a span of 445 m and a clearance height of 50 m. Your suspension bracket is 209 m long. The steel construction rests on comparatively delicate-looking reinforced concrete columns arranged in pairs , which are stiffened by a cross brace. The main bridge is connected to ramp bridges more than 700 m long on both sides.
The Gramercy Bridge may be the last truss cantilever bridge, a type of construction that was used in the US for a long time after in Europe with comparable span of prestressed concrete - girder bridges and cable-stayed bridges had been replaced.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Macon Fry, July Posner: Cajun Country Guide . 2nd edition, Pelican, Gretna, LA 1999, ISBN 1-56554-337-8 , p. 94 ( digital extracts on Google Books)
- ↑ Veterans Memorial Bridge on John A. Weeks III's website
- ↑ Karl Gotsch: suspension bracket