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- Dedicated: 12/5/1956
- Designers: Division of Bridges and Viaducts
- Classification: Single Deck; Rail Height Trusses
- Clear Span: 182 feet
- Trunnion-to-Trunnion Span: 210 feet
- Width: 69 feet
- Leaf Weight: 1,000 - 2,000 tons (est)
- Height above the Water: 22 feet
- Construction Cost in 1956: $3.5 million
- Average Daily Foot Traffic (1999): 3,100
- Average Daily Vehicular Traffic (2006): 6,700
- Annual Lifts (2006): 40
- Last Rehabilitated: NA
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