Lower Trenton ('Trenton Makes') Toll-Supported Bridge -- New Jersey-bound traffic at the Lower Trenton Toll-Supported Bridge is scheduled to be shifted to the upstream truss 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday Sept. 18. The traffic shift is needed so Commission maintenance personnel can make repairs to the bridge's "Trenton Makes The World Takes" illuminated sign. Travel delays are not anticipated.
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 [...]
Fast Facts: This is the site of the last wooden covered bridge to be constructed across the Delaware River between New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The wooden bridge was completed and opened as a [...]