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The Memphis & Arkansas Bridge (per its nameplates), conjointly referred to as the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge or Memphis-Arkansas Memorial Bridge, may be a cantilevered through bridge carrying interstate fifty five across the Mississippi River between West Memphis, Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee. Memphians sit down with 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 conjointly carries U.S. Highways sixty one, 64, seventy and seventy nine from Memphis to West Memphis; it conjointly carried U.S. Main 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, the span wasn’t designed to interstate main road standards, lacking the concrete barrier between the various directions of traffic that was adscititious later. It absolutely was conjointly designed with a pavement on either aspect of the route, positioned simply outside the steel truss girders.
The sidewalks, currently conjointly separated from the traffic lanes by concrete barriers, area unit accessible from Memphis town aspectwalks on the Tennessee side, however settle to rushlike slopes on the shoulders of I-55 on the Arkansas aspect. It’s for this reason that the bridge, tho’ 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 area unit still usually employed by bicyclists, because it is uncommon to possess bicycle and pedestrian access on a significant bridge crossing the Mississippi River.
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