Philadelphia (Bridesburg), Pennsylvania and Pennsauken Township, New Jersey
Official name
Betsy Ross Bridge
Maintained by
Delaware River Port Authority of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
ID number
4500011
Characteristics
Design
Steel continuous truss bridge
Total length
8,485 feet (2,586 meters)
Width
105 feet 4 inches (32.11 meters)
Longest span
729 feet (222 meters)
Clearance above
37.66 feet (11.48 meters)
Clearance below
135 feet (41 meters)
History
Construction cost
$103 million[1]
Opened
April 30, 1976 (48 years ago) (1976-04-30)[2]
Statistics
Daily traffic
39,980 (2000)
Toll
$5.00 (westbound) (E-ZPass)
Location
The Betsy Ross Bridge is a continuous steel truss bridge spanning the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Pennsauken, New Jersey. It was built from 1969 to 1974, and opened in April 1976, during the American Bicentennial Year. It was originally planned to be named as the "Delair Bridge", after a paralleling vertical lift bridge owned by Pennsylvania Railroad, which is now used by Conrail Shared Assets Operations and New Jersey Transit's Atlantic City Line, but was instead later named for Betsy Ross, a Philadelphia seamstress and creator of the first American flag in 1776. It was the first automotive bridge named for a woman in the United States,[2] and the second U.S. bridge overall named for a woman after Iowa's Boone High Bridge was renamed the Kate Shelley High Bridge in 1912.[3]
Betsy Ross Bridge is located adjacent to the mouth of Frankford Creek. During construction, thousands of headstones from historic Monument Cemetery were used as riprap on the embankments built for the bridge, some of which can be seen along the edge of the Delaware River near the bridge during low tide.[4]
^Richman, Steven M. (Mar 16, 2005). The Bridges of New Jersey: Portraits of Garden State Crossings. Rutgers University Press. p. 88. ISBN 9780813537825. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
^ ab"DRPA :: Delaware River Port Authority". Archived from the original on 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
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