The Veterans Memorial Bridge, also known as the Gramercy Bridge, is a truss bridge over the Mississippi River connecting Gramercy, Louisiana in St. James Parish with St. John the Baptist Parish. This is the newest Mississippi River bridge in Louisiana, built to replace the Luling Ferry following a 1976 accident that killed 78.^[1] While the Veterans Memorial Bridge has not transformed the local economy as extensively as its upriver cousin, the Sunshine Bridge, the farming industry has benefitted from the quicker river crossing.^{[citation needed]} This article is about the river in the United States. ... Gramercy is a town located in St. ... St. ... A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers: structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ... A truss bridge is a bridge composed of connected elements (typically straight) which may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads. ... This article is about the river in the United States. ... Gramercy is a town located in St. ... St. ... St. ...

Louisiana Highway 3213
Length:	3.79[2] mi (6.10 km)
Formed:
South end:	LA 18
Major junctions:	LA 44 near Gramercy
North end:	LA 641 near Gramercy
Highways in Louisiana < LA 3212 LA 3214 >

The bridge and its approaches are Louisiana Highway 3213 (LA 3213), which runs 3.79 miles (6.10 km) from Louisiana Highway 18 on the west bank north over the bridge, past an interchange with Louisiana Highway 44, to its terminus at Louisiana Highway 641.^[2] (LA 641 continues north across U.S. Highway 61 (Airline Highway) to Interstate 10.) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... A mile is any of a number of units of distance, each in the magnitude of 1–10 km. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... // List of Louisiana Highways List of Interstate Highways Interstate 10 Interstate 12 Interstate 20 Interstate 49 Interstate 55 Interstate 59 Interstate 110 Interstate 210 Interstate 220 Interstate 310 Interstate 410 (cancelled) Interstate 420 (cancelled) Interstate 510 Interstate 610 Interstate 910 (only designated by the Federal Highway Administration) List of U... High-capacity freeway interchange in Los Angeles, California. ...

Plans have been made to extend LA 3213 south from the bridge to Louisiana Highway 3127, an inland bypass to LA 18.^[3]

See also

• List of crossings of the Lower Mississippi River

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References

1. ^ The Zachary Taylor Parkway, Bridges Replace Ferries
2. ^ ^a b Louisiana State Highway Log
3. ^ Sen. Amedee Announces Funding Awarded for Gramercy Bridge Extension, September 24, 2004

• Weeks III, John A. "LA-3213 Veterans Memorial Bridge, Gramercy, LA". http://www.johnweeks.com/lower_mississippi/pages/lmiss14.html. Retrieved January 31, 2006.