Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge (Connecticut)
The Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, more commonly referred to as the Q Bridge (the "Q" referring to "Quinnipiac") by locals, is a bridge that carries Interstate 95 (Connecticut Turnpike) over the mouth of the Quinnipiac River in New Haven, Connecticut. The 1,300 m (0.8 mi) span – which opened in 1958 – is a girder and floorbeam design where steel beams support the concrete bridge deck. The bridge carries three lanes of traffic in each direction with no inside or outside shoulders. The bridge was officially dedicated as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in 1995 to commemorate the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge will be replaced by a $554 million 10-lane extradosed bridge; the northbound span of which opened to traffic on June 22, 2012. Since the Gibbs Street Bridge in Portland, Oregon was redesigned from an extradosed span to a box girder bridge, the Pearl Harbor Memorial bridge is on track to the be first extradosed bridge in the United States when it fully opens in 2016. The new bridge is the centerpiece of a $3 billion megaproject to reconstruct and widen 13 miles (21 km) of I-95 between West Haven and Branford.
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