Evergreen Point Floating Bridge Seattle, Washington

The worlds longest floating bridge.

August 20, 1999

EVERGREEN POINT BRIDGE, OTHER SR 520 LANES/RAMP TO CLOSE OVER AUG. 27 WEEKEND

July 20, 1999

During a two day closure of the bridge (July 17-18 1999) a crew of workers installed and successfully post-tensioned sixteen tendons consisting of fifteen .6 in dia strands.  The entire system weighed 3.4 million pounds. Each tendon was 3600 ft long making them the longest tendons ever post-tensioned in the world.

 

July 17, 1999

Trans-Lake board wants further review of traffic options

July 14, 1999

Don't expect better cross-lake commute for at least a decade

May 19, 1999

Traffic fix could cost $8 billion

March 4, 1999

Is the broken-down 520 bridge on its last legs?

A history of the Evergreen Point floating bridge