Helena Bridge
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Helena Bridge | |
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| Coordinates | 34°29′48″N 90°35′17″W / 34.49667°N 90.58806°W |
| Carries | 2 lanes of  US 49 |
| Crosses | Mississippi River |
| Locale | Helena, Arkansas and Lula, Mississippi |
| ID number | 000000000002899 |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Cantilever bridge |
| Total length | 5,204 feet (1,586 m) |
| Width | 28 feet (9 m) |
| Longest span | 804 feet (245 m) |
| Clearance below | 119 feet (36 m) |
| History | |
| Opened | July 27, 1961 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 6,000 (2007) |
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The Helena Bridge is a cantilever bridge carrying U.S. Route 49 across the Mississippi River between Helena, Arkansas and Lula, Mississippi.
The main cantilever span was modeled on the similar Benjamin G. Humphreys Bridge which had been built downstream by Arkansas and Mississippi roughly two decades earlier. However, the river navigation issues that led to the replacement of the Humphreys Bridge with the Greenville Bridge do not apply to the Helena Bridge, as the river curve here is far less severe than the one just upstream from the Humphreys and Greenville Bridges.
The bridge had a stated construction cost of $14 million, and was opened as a toll bridge in 1961 until that initial cost was repaid. The total length of the bridge is slightly less than a mile and it replaced an earlier ferry.[1][2] The bridge superstructure suffered its first substantial damage from a barge accident in July 1997.[3]
References
- ^ "Helena Celebrates! July 27, 1961" Archived April 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Arkansas Highways, Vol. 9, no. 8 (August 1961).
- ^ "Helena Bridge Adds One More River Gateway, Helps Helena", Delta Democrat-Times, March 31, 1963. Accessed 2016-01-18 via Newspapers.com
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- ^ "Mississippi River bridge out after hit; casino artery severed", 'Associated Press in Log Cabin Democrat, July 17, 1997.
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