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 By 1993 the Quinnipiac River bridge was considered outdated, and traffic bottlenecks had been a chronic problem over the Q bridge.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 | |
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Construction of the new Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge (Q-Bridge) as viewed from the Tomlinson Bridge. |
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| 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) |
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