Reedy Point Bridge

The Reedy Point Bridge conveys Delaware Route 9 over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in Delaware City, Delaware, USA. A two-path cantilever connect comparative in appearance to the Platt Bridge in Southwest Philadelphia , the Reedy Point Bridge was worked by the U.S.

Armed force Corps of Engineers and opened in 1968, supplanting a lift connect that crossed the C&D Canal before the 1955 broadening venture. Not at all like the close-by St. Georges Bridge, the Reedy Point Bridge traverses over salt swamps at the southern approach , the channel itself, and both Fort Dupont and the Governor Bacon Health Center.

An old twofold leaf bascule drawbridge, found only not as much as of a mile north of the northern projection, permits Delaware Route 9 to traverse the Delaware Ship Channel and is actually part of the Reedy Point Bridge system.Both the abnormal state connect and the drawbridge are kept up by the U.S. Armed force Corps of Engineers.