The Alexander Hamilton Bridge is an eight-lane steel arch bridge that carries traffic over the Harlem River between the
boroughs of
Manhattan and the Bronx in New York City. It connects the Trans-Manhattan Expressway in the Washington Heights section of
anhattan
and the Cross-Bronx Expressway, as part of Interstate 95 and U.S. 1.
The bridge opened to traffic on January 15, 1963, the same day
that the Cross-Bronx Expressway was completed. For 2011, the New York City Department of Transportation, which operates
and maintains
the bridge, reported an average daily traffic volume in both directions of 182,174; having reached a peak ADT of 192,848
in 1990.[3]
Looking west The total length of bridge, including approaches, is 2,375 feet. Its parallel main spans are
555 feet
long and provide 103 feet of vertical clearance over the Harlem River at the center and 366 feet of horizontal
clearance. |