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The Maestri Bridge (originally referred to as the Pontchartrain Bridge and later because the Watson-Williams Pontchartrain Bridge and also the 5 Mile Bridge) carries U.S. Route eleven across Lake Pontchartrain between metropolis and Slidell, Louisiana. The bridge opened on Feb eighteen, 1928 because the 1st permanent crossing of Lake Pontchartrain. The 4.78-mile (7.69 km) bridge was the longest concrete bridge within the World upon completion. The bridge is thirty five feet (11 m) wide and has a pair of draw spans for passing vessels and barges. The bridge was originally a toll facility, costing $1.25 for a vehicle with one driver, plus $0.10 for every further traveller.
Louisiana Governor Huey Long was against toll bridges and offered to possess the state purchase the bridge from its personal house owners. The supply was rejected, therefore Governor Long made 2 free bridges to the east on U.S. Route ninety across cook Menteur Pass and also the Rigolets Pass. With a free different, the toll bridge moon-faced financial disaster and was oversubscribed to the state in 1938 for $940,000. Following the acquisition, the bridge’s name was modified to the Maestri Bridge, named when Henry M. Robert Maestri, the civil authority of latest Orleans. U.S. Route 11, once co-signed with U.S. Route ninety across the cook Menteur and Rigolets Bridges, was re-routed onto the Maestri Bridge around 1941.
In 2005, cyclone Katrina nearly destroyed the I-10 Twin Span Bridge to the east. However, because of its durable construction, the Maestri Bridge was for the most part unmarred and was the sole route to metropolis from the East till the dual Spans may well be briefly fastened (US-90 was conjointly closed because of injury to the Fort Pike Bridge). The bridge was enclosed Gregorian calendar month 2012 for repairs. LA DOTD awarded a $5.7 million contract to rehabilitate the bridge’s railings. It reopened on could twenty first.
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