Mount Hope Bridge

October 15, 2022

North America

 

Mount Hope Bridge
spans Mount Hope Bay
lanes 1×2
Total length 1,868 meters
main span 366 meters
Bridge deck height 41 meters
Opening 24-10-1929
Traffic intensity 17,700 mvt/day
Location Map

The Mount Hope Bridge is a suspension bridge in the United States, located in the state of Rhode Island. The bridge spans Mount Hope Bay between Portsmouth and Bristol.

Characteristics

The Mount Hope Bridge is 1,868 meters long and has a main span of 366 meters. The pylons are 87 meters high and with suspension cables the 9 meter wide bridge deck is carried 41 meters above the Mount Hope Bay. State Route 114 runs over the two-lane bridge from Portsmouth to Bristol. The bridge connects the island of Rhode Island with the mainland of the state of Rhode Island.

History

The bridge was built between December 1927 and October 1929 and opened to traffic on October 24, 1929. The bridge replaced a ferry service. Construction cost $5 million and the bridge was a toll road. The bridge opened a few days before the 1929 Wall Street crash and was a private toll bridge. In 1931, the bridge was bankrupted by a local brewery, after which the bridge was acquired by the state of Rhode Island in 1954. The toll was reduced from $0.60 to $0.30 one way. In 1998 the toll was abolished because the collection costs were higher than the toll revenue. The bridge was also renovated between 1998 and 2004.

In the early 1970s, it was planned to make the bridge part of Interstate 895, a southern bypass of Providence. A second span would then be built at the Mount Hope Bridge. This plan was scrapped in 1982.

Traffic intensities

Every day 17,700 vehicles drive over the two-lane bridge, which is used fairly intensively.

List

The Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges (US 41) at Evansville.

The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati.

The Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge at Maysville.

The list runs upstream from Cairo to Pittsburgh.

Bridge Length main span Type lanes Opening
Cairo Ohio River Bridge 1,787 m 244 m truss bridge 1×2 1937
Paducah Bridge 1,714 m 222 m arch bridge 2×2 1973
Irvin S. Cobb Bridge 1,642 m 217 m truss bridge 1×2 1929
Shawneetown Bridge 975 m 252 m truss bridge 1×2 1955
Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges 1,644 m 220 m truss bridge 2×2 1932 / 1966
Glover Cary Bridge 615 m 230 m truss bridge 1×2 1940
William H. Natcher Bridge 1,373 m 366 m cable-stayed bridge 2×2 2002
Bob Cummins – Lincoln Trail Bridge 826 m 251 m arch bridge 1×2 1966
Matthew E. Welsh Bridge 944 m 221 m truss bridge 1×2 1966
Sherman Minton Bridge 626 m 240 m arch bridge 2×3 1962
George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge 1,752 m 250 m truss bridge 2×2 1929
John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge 761 m 213 m truss bridge 1×6 1963
Abraham Lincoln Bridge 761 m 229 m cable-stayed bridge 1×6 2015
East End Bridge 1,355 m 366 m cable-stayed bridge 2×2 2016
Milton-Madison Bridge 970 m 220 m truss bridge 1×2 2014
Caroll C. Cropper Bridge 993 m 229 m arch bridge 2×2 1977
Brent Spence Bridge 529 m 253 m truss bridge 2×4 1963
Clay Wade Bailey Bridge 673 m 206 m truss bridge 1×3 1974
John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge 659 m 322 m suspension bridge 1×2 1867
Taylor Southgate Bridge 564 m 259 m truss bridge 2×2 1995
Daniel Carter Beard Bridge 640 m 231 m arch bridge 2×4 1976
Combs-Hehl Bridge 460 m 219 m truss bridge 2×3 1979
William H. Harsha Bridge 640 m 320 m cable-stayed bridge 1×2 2000
Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge 607 m 323 m suspension bridge 1×2 1931
Carl Perkins Bridge 912 m 274 m truss bridge 1×2 1988
US Grant Bridge 657 m 267 m cable-stayed bridge 1×2 2006
Ironton-Russell Bridge 501 m 274 m cable-stayed bridge 1×2 2016
Ben Williamson Memorial Bridge 693 m 225 m truss bridge 1×2 1930
Simeon Willis Memorial Bridge 705 m 225 m truss bridge 1×2 1985
West Huntington Bridge 686 m 171 m truss bridge 1×2 1970
Robert C. Byrd Bridge 635 m 219 m truss bridge 2×2 1994
East Huntington Bridge 551 m 274 m cable-stayed bridge 1×2 1985
Silver Memorial Bridge 599 m 270 m truss bridge 2×2 1969
Pomeroy-Mason Bridge 564 m 206 m cable-stayed bridge 2×2 2008
Ravenswood Bridge 830 m 270 m truss bridge 2×2 1981
Blenner Hassett Island Bridge 1,222 m 268 m arch bridge 2×2 2008
Parkersburg-Belpre Bridge 772 m 114 m truss bridge 2×2 1980
Memorial Bridge 779 m 213 m truss bridge 1×2 1955
Williamstown Bridge 797 m 198 m truss bridge 1×2 1992
Marietta-Williamstown Interstate Bridge 797 m 198 m truss bridge 2×2 1965
Hi Carpenter Memorial Bridge 787 m 274 m truss bridge 2×2 1977
New Martinsville Bridge 640 m 218 m truss bridge 1×2 1959
Moundsville Bridge 800 m 278 m arch bridge 2×2 1986
Interstate 470 Bridge 409 m 239 m arch bridge 2×2 1983
Wheeling Suspension Bridge 398 m 308 m suspension bridge 1×2 1849
Fort Henry Bridge 506 m 177 m arch bridge 2×2 1955
Wellsburg Bridge ? ? arch bridge 2×2 2021
Market Street Bridge 547 m 213 m suspension bridge 1×2 1905
Veterans Memorial Bridge 599 m 250 m cable-stayed bridge 2×3 1990
Newell Toll Bridge 485 m 226 m suspension bridge 1×2 1905
Jennings Randolph Bridge 617 m 227 m truss bridge 2×2 1977
Shipping Port Bridge 493 m 189 m truss bridge 1×2 1968
Vanport Bridge 539 m 218 m truss bridge 2×2 1970
Rochester-Monaca Bridge ? ? truss bridge 1×2 1986
Monaca-East Rochester Bridge 621 m 223 m truss bridge 1×2 1959
Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge 582 m 162 m truss bridge 1×2 1926
Sewickley Bridge 460 m 230 m truss bridge 1×2 1981
Neville Island Bridge 1,385 m 229 m arch bridge 2×3 1974
McKees Rocks Bridge 2,223 m 229 m arch bridge 1×3 1931
West End Bridge 603 m 240 m arch bridge 2×2 1932

Mount Hope Bridge

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