The Benning Bridge is a beam bridge carrying Benning Road over the Anacostia River and Kingman Island. It is a six-lane bridge with pedestrian lanes on both sides. A separate Washington Metro bridge carrying the Blue and Orange lines crosses over the bridge near its western terminus, and parallels the bridge on the north.
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“It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
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—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)