From 2002 to 2007 a new suspension bridge is being built parallel to and south of the existing bridge, which will also be upgraded and retrofitted. The project will create a safer, less-congested SR 16 corridor linking the Peninsula to Tacoma and I-5.
Marilyn Bielstein thought the noise would stop when the second Narrows bridge opened last month.
Whew. Commuters sailed effortlessly through the toll plaza and across the new Tacoma Narrows bridge Monday morning, much to the surprise of just about everyone.
We asked members of The News Tribune’s News Network how their commute went. Here are some of their comments:
Bikers and pedestrians will be able to use the new Tacoma Narrows bridge, but not right away.
They came and came and just kept coming. More than 50,000 people streamed onto the new Tacoma Narrows bridge Sunday, pushing baby strollers, snapping pictures and gazing up in awe at the massive cables and concrete towers.
Video - New Narrows Bridge Opening Celebration
Video - New Narrows Bridge Opening Celebration
“We had no real problems. We had a lot of tired people, a lot of sweaty, tired, happy people.”
Bring on the crowds.
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Friday’s mad rush to obtain transponders for the new Tacoma Narrows bridge included some disappointed owners of motorcycles and certain luxury cars,
If you’re fretting about the cost of crossing the new Tacoma Narrows bridge starting Monday, take heart that at least you don’t have to pay extra for passengers.
Tacoma Narrows Constructors plans a flurry of last-minute road work in preparation for the July 15 opening of the new Tacoma Narrows bridge.
The opening of the new Narrows bridge is expected to ease traffic congestion between Gig Harbor and Tacoma.
I put the Tacoma Narrows bridge toll transponder on my windshields wrong, and had to get replacements for two cars. So I was feeling pretty stupid.
Nearly 64,000 transponders have been issued to vehicles that are likely to cross the new Tacoma Narrows bridge, but most of those toll-paying decals seem to be stuck in limbo instead of stuck on vehicle windshields.
TOLEDO, Ohio – At precisely 10 p.m., the center pylon of Toledo’s new bridge lights up and fireworks erupt around it, sending sprays of fire into the night sky.
TOLEDO, Ohio – During the first year of work on Toledo’s new Veterans’ Glass City Skyway bridge, Fru-Con Construction, a Missouri-based contractor, figured out a way to be more efficient by rerouting traffic through the construction zone.
The toll on the new Tacoma Narrows bridge will be $3 for passenger cars and trucks – $1.75 for automated toll payers – and, yes, cops will have to pay, too.
Is it possible that so many people could pile onto the new Tacoma Narrows bridge on opening day that they would make the bridge fall down?
The second expansion joint for the new Narrows bridge arrived early Wednesday on the bridge’s Tacoma side.
SPOKANE – Holding up miles of cars, a tractor-trailer rig carrying a 100-ton expansion joint for the new Tacoma Narrows bridge slowly made its way toward Tacoma after a three-week delay near Spokane.
A giant bridge deck expansion joint, stranded near landlocked Spokane for more than three weeks because it was so heavy, was granted an oversize load permit Tuesday, clearing the way for a new hauler to take it the remaining 300 miles to Tacoma.
Lighting up the Narrows bridges for oohing, ahhing and civic pride is a great idea, Tacoma City Council members said Tuesday night.
State Department of Transportation officials don’t know when they’ll hold their grand opening ceremony for the new Tacoma Narrows bridge.
The new Tacoma Narrows bridge’s opening ceremony will feature the first car to drive across Galloping Gertie on July 1, 1940.
The trucking company trying to deliver an oversized piece of equipment to the new Tacoma Narrows bridge hit another major chuckhole Thursday.
The state Department of Transportation has given the builder of the new Tacoma Narrows bridge a $2 million break on the damages it will owe for missing its April 2 deadline, saying that last winter’s bad weather caused 16 days of unavoidable delay.
A 100-ton expansion joint stranded near Spokane got no closer to the new Tacoma Narrows bridge Wednesday and might not be ready to move until Friday.
The Texas trucking company struggling to get a 100-ton piece of the new Tacoma Narrows bridge across Washington state spent Tuesday trying to rent extra equipment needed for the 300-mile move.
The state and a Texas-based moving company have at last come to terms on how to get a giant expansion joint, stuck at the Idaho-Washington border since March 17, delivered to the new Tacoma Narrows bridge.
The piece of the new Tacoma Narrows bridge that has been stranded at the Idaho-Washington border for the past two weeks could start moving again as early as Monday, but when it does, it’s going to be a long, slow trip.
COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho – A key part of the new Tacoma Narrows bridge, ruled too heavy to travel across Washington’s highways last week, has become a tourist attraction at the state line weigh station where it’s been stranded 11 days.
Beginning next week, the state Department of Transportation will close the north sidewalk of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge at times to strip and repaint the bridge’s suspender cables.
The state says it isn’t worried about further delays with the second Narrows bridge, even with a piece of it marooned at the Washington-Idaho border.
COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho – A massive piece of the new Tacoma Narrows bridge remains stranded at the Washington-Idaho state line where officials say it’s too heavy to move across Evergreen State roads.
The truck carrying a 100-ton expansion joint to the new Tacoma Narrows bridge was delayed at the Washington-Idaho border near Spokane over the weekend and did not arrive in Tacoma on Monday as expected.
Construction this week on the new Tacoma Narrows bridge:
Construction this week on the new Tacoma Narrows bridge:
A truck more than twice as long as a typical tractor-trailer is expected to deliver the first of two enormous expansion joints for the new Tacoma Narrows bridge Monday.
Construction this week on the new Tacoma Narrows bridge:
Construction this week on the new Tacoma Narrows bridge:
The South Sound’s wet, windy weather is forcing engineers to get creative in their efforts to wrap the giant suspension cables that support the new Tacoma Narrows bridge.
A group trying to permanently light both Tacoma Narrows bridges won’t ask Gig Harbor or other local governments for money, at least not soon.
After the new Tacoma Narrows bridge opens, state officials expect an average of 1,800 people a day will drive across without paying the toll.
At first glance, the rubble doesn’t look like much: chunks of old concrete, rusted rebar fingers poking out of the sides.
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