page_title: Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge
section_title: Replacement bridge
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge / Replacement bridge
caption_attribution_description: English: Map showing the existing Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge and the proposed replacement bridge, along with traffic ovals and other new elements, as submitted to the National Capitol Planning Commission on November 7, 2013.
context_page_description: The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is a swing bridge that carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. It was built in 1950 and in 1965 named after abolitionist Frederick Douglass. In 2007, the bridge was used by 77,000 daily commuters.
context_section_description: In late 2012, officials announced a $906 million plan to replace and realign the bridge. The project will build new interchanges between the bridge and Suitland Parkway, the bridge and Potomac Avenue SW, Suitland Parkway and Interstate 295, and Suitland Parkway and Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue. The current four-lane bridge will be replaced with a $573.8 million six-lane bridge. A traffic circle with a large field (to be used for public gatherings, and suitable for several new memorials) will connect the north end of the bridge with Potomac Avenue SW.  A second massive traffic oval on the south end of the bridge will help connect it to Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, and help expand the city's "monumental core" into Anacostia. Reconstruction of the two interchanges was estimated to cost $209.2 million.  The remainder of the budgeted funds will help renovate New Jersey Avenue SE and turn South Capitol Street from an industrial corridor into an urban boulevard. The two-year project was to begin in 2013.
  An initial bridge design was submitted to the National Capital Planning Commission and the United States Commission of Fine Arts in summer 2013. The CFA rejected the design in September, called it "uninspired". The agency asked for a design with a more "contemporary approach" and "bolder look".
  On January 29, 2014, the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced the four construction teams that will be asked to solicit final bids on the bridge demolition and construction:
  Frederick Douglass Bridge Partners (a joint venture of Tutor Perini, T.Y. Lin International Group, and Stantec)
  Skanska Facchina (a joint venture of Skanska AB, Facchina Group, and Parsons Transportation)
  South Capitol Constructors (a joint venture of Kiewit Corporation, Corman Construction, and URS Corporation)
  South Capitol Bridge Builders (a joint venture of Archer Western Contractors, Granite Construction, and AECOM)
  The cost of the bridge (which included demolition and construction of the bridge and traffic ovals, but not the Suitland Parkway interchange) was now pegged at $608 million. The new bridge also required the removal of USS Barry (DD-933), the Washington Navy Yard's deteriorating museum ship, which would have been landlocked by construction of the new span. Mayor Muriel Bowser budgeted $512.7 million over six years, beginning in fiscal 2016, to begin building the bridge.
caption: Map of the proposed realigned Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge and new traffic ovals.
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