Florida Avenue Bridge 
Florida Avenue Bridge in up position (open to canal shipping, closed to land vehicle traffic), from Lower 9th Ward side. | | Carries | trains, cars | | Crosses | Industrial Canal | | Locale | New Orleans | | Maintained by | Port of New Orleans | | Design | vertical lift | | Longest span | 91.5 meters (300 ft) | | Clearance below | 47.5 meters (156 ft) | | |
The Florida Avenue Bridge is a vertical lift bridge spanning the Industrial Canal in New Orleans, Louisiana. The bridge has one railroad track, two vehicle lanes and two sidewalks. A parallel high-elevation four-lane roadway bridge is planned. The Industrial Canal is a 5. ...
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History
The Florida Avenue Bridge takes its name from Florida Avenue, formerly the Florida Walk along side the Florida Canal. The Florida Canal or 40 Arpent Canal is a canal in Greater New Orleans and land down river. ...
Florida Avenue was one of the first three roadways provided with bridges across the Industrial Canal when the Canal was built in the early 1920s, the others being Saint Claude Avenue and Gentilly Road/Chef Menteur Highway.
The existing lift bridge was completed in May 2005,[1] replacing a Strauss trunnion bascule bridge which provided only 91 feet (18.6 m) of horizontal clearance for marine traffic. {{BridgeTypePix| |type_name= Bascule bridge |image=MovableBridge_draw. ...
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The current bridge The lift bridge has 300 feet (91.5 m) horizontal clearance and 156 feet (47.5 m) vertical in the up position.[2]
Most of the marine usage of the Florida Avenue site consists of towboat and barge traffic transitting from the Mississippi River, through the Industrial Canal Lock, then east following the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The lift bridge, however, provides enough vertical clearance for ship traffic as well. The towboat Angelina pushes a barge in New Orleans. ...
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As of mid December, 2005, the Florida Avenue Bridge is still closed to vehicular traffic due to the devastation on the Lower 9th Ward side of the bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Lowest pressure 902 mbar (hPa) Damages $75 billion (2005 USD) (costliest Atlantic hurricane in history) Fatalities ≥1,605 Areas affected Bahamas, South Florida, Cuba, Louisiana (especially Greater New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida Panhandle, most of eastern North America Part of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Katrina was the costliest...
Plans for a newer bridge A four-lane, high-level vehicular bridge is planned to be built immediately south of (toward the Mississippi River from) the lift bridge. According to plans in place before Hurricane Katrina, the first construction phase was expected to be let in early 2007, with completion of the entire project in 2010.[3] These plans may be delayed or modified due to the ongoing effects of the Katrina related devastation of the area.
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