History
This bridge was created as part of a project to build the Connecticut Turnpike, a toll road stretching from Greenwich to Killingly in the 1950s. The land acquisition and construction cut through many neighborhoods, including Italian and Jewish ones. By 1993 the Quinnipiac River bridge was considered outdated, and traffic bottlenecks had been a chronic problem over the Q bridge.
| (New) Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge | |
|---|---|
Construction of the new Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge (Q-Bridge) as viewed from the Tomlinson Bridge. |
|
| Carries | Ten lanes of I-95 |
| Crosses | Quinnipiac River |
| Locale | New Haven, Connecticut |
| Maintained by | Connecticut Department of Transportation |
| Design | Extradosed bridge |
| Total length | 1,443.2 metres (4,735 ft) |
| Width | 55.4 metres (182 ft) |
| Height | 45.7 metres (150 ft) |
| Longest span | 157.0 metres (515.1 ft) |
| Clearance below | 18.3 metres (60 ft) |
| Opened | June 22, 2012 (NB), November 2015 (SB) |
Read more about this topic: Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge (Connecticut)
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“... all big changes in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It would be naive to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems.... However, with faith and perseverance,... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace. They can be resolved in the future, provided, of course, that we can think of five new ways to measure the height of a tall building by using a barometer.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)