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Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge (Connecticut)
The Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, more commonly referred to as the Q Bridge (the "Q" referring to "Quinnipiac") by locals, is a partially completed extradosed bridge that carries Interstate 95 (Connecticut Turnpike) over the mouth of the Quinnipiac River in New Haven, in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Currently, the northbound span of the new extradosed bridge carries both northbound and southbound traffic, while the original girder-and-floorbeam bridge that opened in 1958, is demolished and the new southbound span is built in its place. The original 1,300 m (0.8 mi) span – which opened on January 2, 1958 – was a girder and floorbeam design where steel beams support the concrete bridge deck. The bridge carried three lanes of traffic in each direction with no inside or outside shoulders. The bridge was officially dedicated as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in 1995 to commemorate the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge is being replaced by a $554 million 10-lane extradosed bridge; the northbound span of which opened to traffic on June 22, 2012. Southbound traffic was shifted onto the new bridge, sharing the northbound span with northbound traffic until the new southbound span is completed in late 2015. Since the Gibbs Street Bridge in Portland, Oregon was redesigned from an extradosed span to a box girder bridge, the Pearl Harbor Memorial bridge is on track to be the first extradosed bridge in the United States when it fully opens in 2016.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Welcome to the Gibbs Street Pedestrian Bridge Website! )〕 The new bridge is the centerpiece of a $2 billion megaproject to reconstruct and widen 13 miles (21 km) of I-95 between West Haven and Branford.
==History==
This bridge was created as part of a project to build the Connecticut Turnpike, a toll road stretching from Greenwich to Killingly in the 1950s. By 1993 the Quinnipiac River bridge was considered outdated, and traffic bottlenecks had been a chronic problem over the Q bridge.
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