Two hundred years ago, when the tide was low enough, it was possible to walk from part of Brooklyn to Governors Island–a small island 400 yards away–on a sandbar. Then the waterway was dredged to make ...

Fifty thousand people walked, ran or biked across the new state Route 520 floating bridge earlier this month during the span’s grand opening celebration. The event gave the public the chance to ...

The new State Route 520 floating bridge will open in April, and the Department of Transportation has a big celebration planned for the world's longest floating bridge. The weekend festivities atop the ...

The 321-ft-long, 24-ft-wide structure is the only floating bridge in the U.S. composed of glued laminated timber approach ramps connected to a 261-ft-long floating span, which is supported by ...

ENR Northwest 8/8-15/16 p. NW22 Design engineer gets technical with post-tensioning during demolition of a floating bridge in Seattle. For decades, the 7,580-ft-long concrete pontoon bridge, ...

You could be forgiven for expecting a bridge to rise above the water over which it is intended to span. A new bridge in the Netherlands, however, takes a different approach. The Ravelijn Bridge floats ...

It was a quiet opening for the new 520 floating bridge on Monday. After crews finished their work, about four hours ahead of time, the state opened the eastbound and westbound lanes of the 520 bridge.

There won’t be much time to bid the old 520 floating bridge farewell once the new one opens Monday. The Washington State Department of Transportation will begin tearing the bridge that has brought so ...

As the County Fire tore through Northern California this summer well on its way to burning 90,000 acres in Napa and Yolo counties, Harley Ramirez got a call. The 132nd Multirole Bridge Company of the ...

Late night and early morning SR 520 drivers should plan to take alternate routes across and around Lake Washington on Thursday. The 520 floating bridge will close Thursday night. Late night and early ...

SEATTLE - After a decade of planning and five years of construction, the new State Route 520 floating bridge opened across Lake Washington Saturday. An estimated 13,000 runners and walkers were the ...

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- The state's ready to open up its new 520 floating bridge across Lake Washington on the first weekend of April. The longest floating bridge in the world will be replaced by... the ...