Lake Washington Floating Bridge
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The Lake Washington Floating Bridge could refer to one of three floating bridges on Lake Washington
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Lake Washington
Lake Washington is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle. It is the largest lake in King County and the second largest in the state of Washington, after Lake Chelan. It is bordered by the cities of Seattle on the west, Bellevue and Kirkland on the east, Renton on the south and...
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- Lacey V. Murrow Memorial BridgeLacey V. Murrow Memorial BridgeThe Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge is a floating bridge that carries the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 across Lake Washington from Seattle to Mercer Island, Washington. It is the second longest floating bridge on Earth at , whereas the longest is the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge just a few...
, opened in 1940 to carry U.S. Route 10U.S. Route 10U.S. Route 10 is an east–west United States highway formed in 1926. Though it never became the cross-country highway suggested by the "0" as the last digit of its route number, U.S...
and now carries Interstate 90Interstate 90 in WashingtonInterstate 90 , a transcontinental Interstate Highway from Seattle, Washington, to Boston, Massachusetts, crosses the state of Washington before crossing the Idaho state line between Spokane and Post Falls...
. - Evergreen Point Floating BridgeEvergreen Point Floating BridgeThe Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge—Evergreen Point is the longest floating bridge on Earth at and carries State Route 520 across Lake Washington from Seattle to Medina.The Evergreen Point of the bridge's original name is the westernmost of the three small Eastside...
, opened in 1963 to carry State Route 520. - Homer M. Hadley Memorial BridgeHomer M. Hadley Memorial BridgeThe Third Lake Washington Bridge, officially the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, is the fifth-longest floating bridge in the world, at 5,811 feet...
, opened in 1989, parallel to the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, to expand Interstate 90Interstate 90 in WashingtonInterstate 90 , a transcontinental Interstate Highway from Seattle, Washington, to Boston, Massachusetts, crosses the state of Washington before crossing the Idaho state line between Spokane and Post Falls...
from 4 lanes to 8 lanes.