Carries 4 lanes of LA 3213 Maintained by LaDOTD Opened 1995 Clearance below 50 m Bridge type Cantilever bridge | Crosses Mississippi River ID number 614704340300011 Total length 945 m Location Gramercy Body of water Mississippi River | |
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Locale Gramercy, Louisiana and Wallace, Louisiana Official name Veterans Memorial Bridge Similar Sunshine Bridge, Hale Boggs Memorial, Horace Wilkinson Bridge, John James Audubon, Old Vicksburg Bridge | ||
High speed chase then jump to death from gramercy bridge
The Gramercy Bridge (officially the Veterans Memorial Bridge), is a cantilever bridge over the Mississippi River connecting Gramercy, Louisiana in St. James Parish with St. John the Baptist Parish. It is the second newest Mississippi River bridge in Louisiana (due to the completion of the John James Audubon Bridge), one of many built to replace the ferry system following a 1976 accident that killed 78 when a ferry sank after being struck by a ship. While the Veterans Memorial Bridge has not transformed the local economy as extensively as its upriver cousin, the Sunshine Bridge, the farming industry has benefited from the quicker river crossing.
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- High speed chase then jump to death from gramercy bridge
- Crossing the gramercy bridge
- In popular culture
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The bridge and its approaches are Louisiana Highway 3213 (LA 3213), which runs 3.79 miles (6.10 km) from Louisiana Highway 18 on the west bank north over the bridge, past an interchange with Louisiana Highway 44, to its terminus at Louisiana Highway 641. (LA 641 continues north across U.S. Highway 61 (Airline Highway) to Interstate 10.)
LA 3213 now extends from the bridge to LA 3127 on a two lane roadway that crosses over railroad tracks about halfway down the road.
Crossing the gramercy bridge
In popular culture
Gramercy Bridge was used in the final level of video game Left 4 Dead 2 albeit transplaced to New Orleans
