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I-95 meets the northern terminus of I-85 in Petersburg and is concurrent with I-64 for three miles (4.8 km) in Richmond. Although I-95 was originally planned as a highway through Washington, D.C. (following the route of what is now I-395), it was rerouted along the eastern portion of the Capital Beltway concurrent with I-495.
Thousands of people have gone over Niagara Falls, either intentionally (as stunts or suicide attempts) or accidentally. The first recorded person to survive going over the falls was school teacher Annie Edson Taylor, who in 1901 successfully completed the stunt inside an oak barrel. In the following 123 years, thousands of people have been ...
Honeymoon Bridge (Upper Steel Arch Bridge) Niagara Falls, New York – Niagara Falls, Ontario: United States – Canada 27 January 1938: Steel arch road bridge Ice jam in gorge pushed bridge off foundations 0 killed, 0 injured Bridge completely destroyed Replaced in 1941 by the Rainbow Bridge: Sandö Bridge: Kramfors, Ångermanland: Sweden 31 ...
The area affected by the crash carried about 160,000 vehicles daily and the highway span was about 10 to 12 years old and had appeared structurally sound. It had also been part of a $212 million reconstruction project that had been finished about four years prior, according to a Transportation Department spokesperson.
The American Falls is the second largest of the three waterfalls that together are known as Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the Canada–United States border.Unlike the much larger Horseshoe Falls, of which approximately 90% is in Ontario, Canada, and 10% in the U.S. state of New York, [2] the American Falls is entirely within the United States.
Niagara River: Locale: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada and Niagara Falls, New York, U.S. Official name: Niagara Falls International Rainbow Bridge: Maintained by: Niagara Falls Bridge Commission: Characteristics; Design: Arch bridge of steel construction: Total length: 1,450 ft (440 m) [1] Height: 202 ft (62 m) [1] Longest span: 960 ft (290 m ...
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (CBBT, officially the Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge–Tunnel) is a 17.6-mile (28.3 km) bridge–tunnel that crosses the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay between Delmarva and Hampton Roads in the U.S. state of Virginia. It opened in 1964, replacing ferries that had operated since the 1930s.
Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main north–south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, [3] running from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Miami, Florida, north to the Houlton–Woodstock Border Crossing between Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick.