Carries 4 lanes of SR 509 Design Cable-stayed bridge Height 180 ft (55 m) Width 22 m | Total length 682 ft (208 m) or more Opened 22 January 1997 Longest span 503 m Bridge type Cable-stayed bridge | |
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Similar Thea Foss Waterway, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Bridge of Glass, East 34th Street Bridge, Murray Morgan Bridge | ||
The East 21st Street Bridge is a 682-foot (208 m) or 707-foot (215 m) or 992-foot (302 m) long cable-stayed bridge in Tacoma, Washington completed in January, 1997. The bridge, whose most significant feature is two 180-foot (55 m) tall towers, carries four lanes State Route 509 (SR 509) across the Thea Foss Waterway from downtown Tacoma to the Port of Tacoma. SR 509 ends at a single point urban interchange with Interstate 705 west of the bridge, built as part of the same $165.3 million WSDOT project that also funded the bridge's construction.
The architect for the bridge was Jim Merritt, a Tacoma architect.
It is sometimes called Foss Waterway Bridge, although the Murray Morgan Bridge also crosses Foss Waterway.
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