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The Memphis & Arkansas Bridge (per its nameplates), additionally called the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge or Memphis-Arkansas Memorial Bridge, could be a cantilevered through bridge carrying interstate fifty five across the Mississippi River between West Memphis, Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee. Memphians seek advice from this bridge because the “Old Bridge” to tell apart it from the “New Bridge”, or Hernando First State Soto Bridge, upstream.
The Memphis & Arkansas Bridge additionally carries U.S. Highways sixty one, 64, seventy and seventy nine from Memphis to West Memphis; it additionally carried U.S. Road sixty three before its truncation (and later rerouting) in Arkansas. The western terminus of Tennessee State Route one sits on the Tennessee-Arkansas boundary halfway across the bridge.
Having been designed before the introduction of the interstate transportation system, the span wasn’t designed to interstate road standards, lacking the concrete barrier between the various directions of traffic that was additional later. It absolutely was additionally designed with a walk on either facet of the route, positioned simply outside the steel truss girders.
The sidewalks, currently additionally separated from the traffic lanes by concrete barriers, square measure accessible from Memphis town facetwalks on the Tennessee side, however fall down to grass-covered slopes on the shoulders of I-55 on the Arkansas facet. It’s for this reason that the bridge, although listed as a politician a part of the Mississippi River path, is marked as dangerous and a possible routing downside. However, despite this accessibility issue, these lanes square measure still typically employed by bicyclists, because it is uncommon to possess bicycle and pedestrian access on a serious bridge crossing the Mississippi River.
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