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Lake Washington is the second-largest lake in Washington, spanning over 21,500 acres. The deepest point in the lake is close to 214 feet and is about 200 feet deep on average.
1963: The world’s longest floating bridge, the Evergreen Point bridge, opens. It connects Seattle with communities on the east side of Lake Washington. Pontoon bridges have been around since ...
Dave Becher, Washington State Dept. of Transportation floating-bridge and landings project director, is overseeing construction of the world’s longest floating bridge—on Lake Washington, in ...
Why do we have floating bridges on Lake Washington? Images courtesy of WSDOT [enlarge] The new floating bridge rests atop 77 concrete pontoons, the largest of which weigh 22 million pounds.
Many of the people traveling across one of Lake Washington’s floating bridges likely take the innovative spans for granted, but when the lake’s very first floating bridge opened to traffic on ...
Four bridges across Lake Washington. One bridge across Puget Sound. U.S. 99 to remain the main north-south highway, with U.S. 10 – the Sunset Highway – the main east-west highway.
1990: Lacey V. Murrow bridge sinks in Lake Washington Out on Lake Washington, high winds, rain and waves were striking the old pontoons of the 50-year-old Lacey V. Murrow floating bridge.
Lake Washington is the second-largest lake in Washington, spanning over 21,500 acres. The deepest point in the lake is close to 214 feet and is about 200 feet deep on average.
That's what faced Washington state engineers who set out to bridge Lake Washington. And they'd done it before, with the shorter Lake Washington Floating Bridge, opened in 1940.