The 14th Street Bridge is a complex of three bridges built between 1950 and 1972. The official names for the individual bridges are the Rochambeau Bridge, for northbound lanes, and the George Mason Memorial Bridge for southbound lanes. The Rochambeau span was renamed the Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge, for a passenger of Air Florida Flight 90 who died while saving others from the freezing water.
In July, 1989, the 14th Street Bridge gained national notoriety when then-mayor Marion Barry decided to clean up the problem in DC's 14th Street red-light district by having the police round up the prostitutes and marching them across the bridge to Virginia.
The 14thStreetBridge is a complex of three four-lane bridges which carry Interstate 395 and U.S. Highway 1 traffic across the Potomac River, connecting Arlington, Virginia and Washington, D.C. It is named for the street that feeds into it on the DC end (carrying northbound US 1 off the bridge), 14thStreet.
The bridge was again washed out by a flood in February 1857, but was reopened by the end of the year, as revenue service on the AandW with connecting service over the bridge began December 21, 1857.
On November 15, 1865, with the end of the war, the U.S. Military Railroad gave the old bridge to the U.S. Department of the Interior; the new bridge became part of the Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad, leased by the BandO.
The 14thStreetBridge carries Interstate 395 and U.S. Highway 1 traffic across the Potomac River, connecting Arlington, Virginia and Washington DC.
The 14thStreetBridge is a complex of three bridges built between 1950 and 1972.
In July, 1989, the 14thStreetBridge gained national notoriety when then-mayor Marion Barry decided to clean up the problem in DC's 14thStreet red-light district by having the police round up the prostitutes and marching them across the bridge to Virginia.
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