The East Huntington Bridge (officially the Frank Gatski Memorial Bridge , also called the East End Bridge or the 31st Street Bridge ) is a 900-foot (270 m) cable-stayed bridge crossing the Ohio River at Huntington, West Virginia . It carries West Virginia Route 106 on the West Virginia approach and OH 775 on the Ohio approach.
5-564: East End Bridge may refer to: East Huntington Bridge , also called East End Bridge, in Huntington, West Virginia, U.S. Lewis and Clark Bridge (Ohio River) , also called East End Bridge, in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. See also [ edit ] East End (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
10-466: Is the recently extended Ohio State Route 775 ; its southern terminus is a pair of ramps (northbound on-ramp from Fifth Avenue, southbound offramp to Third Avenue) connecting it to U.S. Route 60 . The history of the span dates to the early 1970s when possible routings for a future Ohio River span were being discussed. To conform to the Huntington city comprehensive plan, the alignment preferred by
15-468: The United States since it utilized concrete instead of steel for its construction. It was built as a FHWA demonstration project. The Ohio River span and approach ramps on both sides of the river completed was what was known as Phase I. Future plans involved tolling the bridge and connecting it to U.S. Route 60 four blocks east. The bridge was renamed for Marshall University's first member of
20-536: The city was one that connected to Interstate 64 outside of the city boundaries. Many favored a plan about one mile north of the city along WV 2 . Work began on the bridge in 1983 and was completed in August 1985 at a cost of $ 38 million. The designer of the bridge was Arvid Grant and Associated of Olympia, Washington and was the first bridge of its type in West Virginia . It was only the second of its kind in
25-520: The title East End Bridge . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=East_End_Bridge&oldid=776486185 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages East Huntington Bridge The northern approach (from Ohio State Route 7 )
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