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Snake River Bridge

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because it would be a toll bridge on a taxpayer-supported highway. Not only that, but the state also stood to lose $ 900,000 in federal funds for the North Central Highway if a toll bridge were to be built. Instead, the state approved funding for its own bridge.
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downriver of the bridge in the 1960s flooded the town of Vantage, and state officials decided to replace the existing two-lane bridge, which had become unsafe for high volume traffic, with a
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caused the river to slow, thus increasing crossing time. State officials then decided to reconstruct this bridge at that location.
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Meanwhile, at Lyons Ferry, crossings of the Snake River were done by ferry, but the construction of the
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Snake River Bridge at Lyons Ferry, State Route 261 spanning Snake River, Starbuck, Columbia County, WA
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It was originally constructed in 1927 and known as the Vantage Ferry Bridge, where it carried the
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Coordinates
46°35′22.88″N 118°13′9.89″W / 46.5896889°N 118.2194139°W / 46.5896889; -118.2194139
SR 261
Snake River
Starbuck, Washington
WSDOT
Cantilever bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS
Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
82004207
State Route 261
Snake
Palouse Rivers
Starbuck, Washington
National Register of Historic Places
Lyons Ferry Park
North Central Highway
Columbia River
Vantage
ferry
toll bridge
Louis F. Hart
Wanapum Dam
new four-lane bridge
Lower Monumental Dam
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Washington (state)
List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
Vantage Bridge

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