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==About the Canaveral Locks Bridge== | ==About the Canaveral Locks Bridge== | ||
Located in Port Canaveral, Canaveral Locks Bridge is a set of three double leaf drawbridges | Located in Port Canaveral, Canaveral Locks Bridge is a set of three double leaf lift span drawbridges carrying State Road 401 from Kennedy Space Center across the [[Canaveral Barge Canal]] into Cape Canaveral. In 2019, Port Canaveral's SpaceFlorida was awarded a $90 million federal grant to replace this bridge with twin high rise bridges.<ref>"$90 million federal grant approved to replace aging bridge to Kennedy Space Center" (July 25,2019) [https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2019/07/25/90-million-federal-grant-go-replacement-bridge-ksc/1832181001/ Florida Today]</ref> | ||
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==Images== | ==Images== | ||
Thanks to photographer Rusty Clark for sharing the following images and text via [https://commons.wikimedia.org|Wiki Commons]. | Thanks to photographer Rusty Clark for sharing the following images and text via [https://commons.wikimedia.org|Wiki Commons]. | ||
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NASA’s Freedom Star boat sets out for a day of testing after departing from port near Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for the Atlantic Ocean with NASA’s Mobile Aerospace Reconnaissance System, or MARS, secured aboard. Here it is seen passing through the SR-401 Canaveral Draw Bridge in the Canaveral Barge Canal, just off the Banana River. [http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=59172 KSC Media Archive] ([http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2012-1981.jpg direct photo link]) | NASA’s Freedom Star boat sets out for a day of testing after departing from port near Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for the Atlantic Ocean with NASA’s Mobile Aerospace Reconnaissance System, or MARS, secured aboard. Here it is seen passing through the SR-401 Canaveral Draw Bridge in the Canaveral Barge Canal, just off the Banana River. [http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=59172 KSC Media Archive] ([http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2012-1981.jpg direct photo link]) | ||
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Revision as of 09:55, December 3, 2019
Located in Port Canaveral, Canaveral Locks Bridge is a set of three double leaf lift span drawbridges carrying State Road 401 from Kennedy Space Center across the Canaveral Barge Canal into Cape Canaveral. In 2019, Port Canaveral's SpaceFlorida was awarded a $90 million federal grant to replace this bridge with twin high rise bridges.[1]
Coordinates (28° 24′ 32.26″ N, 80° 37′ 53.53″ W) (28.408961, -80.631536)
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Thanks to photographer Rusty Clark for sharing the following images and text via Commons.
The Port Canaveral Barge Canal Bridge, on Florida highway SR 401, consists of three adjacent bridges, all with double-leaf bascule-type drawbridge spans.
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This view from the southwest mainly shows the westernmost bridge (one of two for southbound traffic, both built in 1963), with the two adjacent bridges mostly obscured from view. The upper portion of the bridge operator's house (or tender's house) for the draw spans is visible, between the nearest bridge and the adjacent bridge.
The bridge tender's house for the Port Canaveral Barge Canal Bridge, on Florida highway SR 401. The bridge actually consists of three adjacent bridges, all with double-leaf bascule-type drawbridge spans, the opening of which is controlled from here.
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NASA’s Freedom Star boat sets out for a day of testing after departing from port near Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for the Atlantic Ocean with NASA’s Mobile Aerospace Reconnaissance System, or MARS, secured aboard. Here it is seen passing through the SR-401 Canaveral Draw Bridge in the Canaveral Barge Canal, just off the Banana River. KSC Media Archive (direct photo link)
References
- ↑ "$90 million federal grant approved to replace aging bridge to Kennedy Space Center" (July 25,2019) Florida Today
