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Transportation
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748:"Funding for the new South Park Bridge"
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1348:Bascule bridges in the United States
616:"South Park Bridge on its last legs"
552:National Register of Historic Places
536:, p. 24. Accessed online 2009-04-28.
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223:National Register of Historic Places
976:Bridges and tunnels in and around
676:South Park Bridge funding rejected
464:Kiewit Infrastructure West Company
356:King County Engineering Department
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225:. The bridge is operated by the
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1231:Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel
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1068:Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge
1047:Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
1040:Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
907:. June 30, 2014. Archived from
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688:Ervin, Keith (June 25, 2010).
572:"Seattle Transportation Watch"
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207:14th/16th Avenue South Bridge
35:New South Park Bridge in 2022
779:Puget Sound Business Journal
614:Keith Ervin (July 6, 2006).
505:Lisa Soderberg (June 1980).
249:United States historic place
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994:List of tunnels in Seattle
989:List of bridges in Seattle
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112:King County, Washington
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327:47.529306; -122.314083
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1236:Great Northern Tunnel
1194:Battery Street Tunnel
1183:State Route 99 Tunnel
1118:20th Avenue NE Bridge
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1098:Schmitz Park Bridge
1034:East Channel Bridge
1018:Alaskan Way Viaduct
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871:"South Park Bridge"
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64:47.5293°N 122.314°W
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1342:Categories
1320:Downstream
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701:January 2,
627:2007-03-26
583:2010-01-13
485:References
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219:Washington
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473:See also
460:TIGER II
458:grants,
413:Scherzer
396:82004228
353:Built by
291:Location
191:Location
155:Designer
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1169:Tunnels
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978:Seattle
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443:TIGER I
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150:History
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