Delaware Water Gap (I-80) Toll Bridge WB -- I-80 westbound motorists should expect traffic shifts in the vicinity of the Delaware Water Gap Toll Plaza 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 5. Brief travel delays are possible as work crews make road surface repairs at and near the toll plaza.
Of the 20 bridges in the DRJTBC system, the Calhoun Street Toll-Supported Bridge is the only one made of wrought iron. A Phoenix Pratt truss with a total length of 1,274 feet, it also holds the [...]
The first bridge at this site was designed by Lewis Wernwag, a pioneering American bridge-building pioneer of his age. Wernwag’s bridge was completed on September 12, 1814 – slightly more than [...]
The original Centre Bridge — an uncovered wooden structure — was constructed in the vicinity of a York Road ferry known as Reading’s Ferry, Howell’s Ferry, and [...]
Originally constructed in 1856 as a vehicular bridge, the covered timber structure consisted of four spans across the Delaware River and one span over the Delaware Division Canal on the [...]
The original bridge at this location was completed in 1843. It was constructed for the private shareholder-owned Alexandria Delaware Bridge Co. (Frenchtown at the time was an unincorporated [...]
A privately owned wooden-covered toll bridge was constructed at this site between 1840 and 1842 for the former Milford (NJ) Delaware Bridge Company. That bridge, with dual cartways, opened [...]
Fast facts: Current bridge is the third oldest existing superstructure in the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission’s 20-bridge system. Pennsylvania Abutment — Riegelsville [...]
The first crossing of the Delaware River at Easton was a ferry enfranchised to David Martin in 1739. Located near the present site of Scott Park at the junction of the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers, [...]
The original bridge at this site was a covered, wooden structure of arch pattern. During the flood of October 10, 1903, the superstructure was carried away and the present steel structure was [...]
The original bridge at the Lower Trenton location was a largely wooden structure designed by Theodore Burr. It was the country’s second covered bridge and the first to span the Delaware [...]