TACONY-PALMYRA BRIDGE

The 'Tacony-Palmyra Bridge' is a combination steel arch, double-leaf bascule bridge connecting New Jersey Route 73 in Palmyra, New Jersey to Pennsylvania Route 73 in the Tacony section of Philadelphia. The bridge has a total length of 3,659 feet (1,115 meters), and spans 2,324 feet (708 meters) across the Delaware River. It was designed by Ralph Modjeski. After a year and a half of construction, it opened in 1929 to replace the local ferry service. Though it originally began as a four-lane bridge, at the conclusion of a 1 1/2-year bridge deck replacement project in 1997 the lanes were later reduced to three wider lanes (two toll lanes into Philadelphia, and one free lane into New Jersey).
The bridge is owned and maintained by the Burlington County Bridge Commission. The bridge has a $2 toll, and despite interruptions due to passing shipping traffic (the Delaware River is navigable as far as Van Sciver Lake near Bristol, Pennsylvania), the bridge serves as a lower cost alternative to the six-lane, high-span Betsy Ross Bridge which costs $3.

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★ List of crossings of the Delaware River

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★ Burlington County Bridge Commission

★ phillyroads.com Tacony-Palmyra Bridge

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★ Ehrhart, W.D., "Drawbridges on the Delaware", ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', Autumn 2002.