page_title: List of vertical-lift bridges
section_title: United States
hierarchical_section_title: List of vertical-lift bridges / Examples / United States
context_page_description: This is a list of vertical-lift bridges.
context_section_description: Adam Street Lift Bridge – A two-lane vehicle and pedestrian bridge spanning the Erie Canal in Lockport, New York. Built in 1917, it has a span of 130 ft (40 m). It was closed in 2011 and left in the raised position.
  Adams Basin Lift Bridge, also called the Washington Street Lift Bridge – A two-lane vehicle and pedestrian bridge spanning the Erie Canal near Spencerport, New York. Built in 1912, it has a span of 145 ft (44 m).
  Aerial Lift Bridge – An automobile bridge in Duluth, Minnesota which began life as an aerial transfer or ferry bridge.
  Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge – Connecting Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York; with a lift with a 559-foot (170 m) span: the longest lift span in the world.
  ASB Bridge – A two-deck bridge over the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri. From 1911–87, handled both trains and cars, on separate decks, and still carries railroad traffic.
  Bridge 710 – A single-track railroad bridge over the Calumet River in Chicago that served U.S. Steel's South Works. Formerly owned by EJ&E and now owned by Canadian National since their purchase of EJ&E.
  Broadway Bridge – A bridge spanning the Harlem River and carrying both road traffic and trains of the New York City Subway's no. 1 line.
  Burlington-Bristol Bridge – A two-lane bridge over the Delaware River, joining Bristol, Pennsylvania with Burlington, New Jersey near Philadelphia
  The BNSF Railroad Bridge across the Willamette River, in Portland, Oregon. The 516-foot (157 m) lift span replaced a swing span in 1989 and, with 200 ft (61 m) of clearance underneath when raised, it is one of the highest vertical-lift bridges in the world.
  Canal Street railroad bridge – Chicago, IL 1914
  Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge – A single-track railroad bridge over the Cape Cod Canal in Bourne, Massachusetts.
  Cape Fear Memorial Bridge – A four-lane bridge over the Cape Fear River that joins Wilmington and Brunswick County, North Carolina.
  Carlton Bridge –  Road and single-track rail bridge in Bath, Maine built in 1927, repaired 1976. Road was bypassed in 2000 with new Route 1 bridge, now only used by the Rockland Branch railroad. Crosses the Kennebec River near Bath Iron Works.
  Chelsea Street Bridge – A four-lane bridge over the Chelsea Creek, opened in 2012, that joins East Boston, and Chelsea, Massachusetts.
  Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Lift Bridge – A single-track railroad bridge over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in Delaware that was built in 1966 for the Pennsylvania Railroad and replaced an earlier structure when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers widened the canal in the mid-1960s.  It is the only bridge of its type along the canal, with earlier highway lift or swing bridges being replaced by high-level crossings.
  Claiborne Avenue Bridge – A four-lane bridge over the Industrial Canal carrying LA 39 in New Orleans.
  Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge (roadway bridge) and the directly adjacent Henry Ford Bridge (railroad bridge), at the Port of Los Angeles
  Conrail Bridge – A single-track railroad bridge over the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, one of nine railroad and automobile lift bridges, and three bascule bridges, allowing ore boats to service the Flats.
  Danziger Bridge – The world's widest vertical-lift movable bridge, at seven lanes, over the Industrial Canal in New Orleans.
  Delair Bridge – A two-track rail bridge carrying New Jersey Transit Atlantic City Line passenger trains and Conrail freight trains over the Delaware River. Bridge built 1896; lift span inserted in 1960 over a relocated and widened shipping channel to replace the original swing span which was immobilized.
  Dock Bridge – A six-track rail bridge in New Jersey carrying Amtrak, New Jersey Transit and PATH trains over the Passaic River. Consists of three parallel vertical lift spans carrying one, two and three tracks respectively from south to north, with both tracks of the 2-track span at a higher level than all the others.
  Eagle Harbor Lift Bridge – A two-lane vehicle and pedestrian bridge spanning the Erie Canal near Albion, New York. Built in 1910, it has a spa
caption: Tower Bridge in Sacramento, California
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