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The Fred Hartman Bridge or Baytown Bridge may be a cable-stayed bridge within the U.S. State of Texas, spanning the Houston Ship Channel. The bridge carries a pair of.6 miles (4 km) of thruway 146, between the cities of Baytown, Texas and La royal court, Texas (east of Houston).
The bridge, named for Fred Hartman (1908–1991), the editor and publisher of the Baytown Sun from 1950 to 1974, is that the longest cable-stayed bridge in Texas, and one in every of solely 3 such bridges within the state, the others being the Veterans Memorial Bridge in Orange County, Texas and therefore the Bluff valley bridge in Erath County Texas. It absolutely was the seventy-sixth largest bridge within the World from 1995 to 2003, and is currently the seventy-seventh largest bridge. The development value of the bridge was $117.5 million.
The bridge replaced the Baytown Tunnel (of depth clearance forty feet or twelve.2 m). The tunnel had to be removed once the Houston Ship Channel was gathered to forty five feet (13.7 m), with a minimum 530 feet (161.5 m) bottom dimension, to accommodate larger ships. The last section of the Baytown Tunnel was far from the Houston Ship Channel on Gregorian calendar month fourteen, 1999, with removal of the tunnel being the responsibility of the Texas Department of Transportation.
The bridge has had hassle within the past, once water streaming down the cables in light-weight rain modified the wind profile of the cables, inflicting surprising vibrations.
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