Lincoln Highway Hackensack River Bridge
The Lincoln Highway Hackensack River Bridge is a vehicular vertical lift bridge crossing the Hackensack River at a point 1.8 mi (2.9 km) from the river mouth at Newark Bay in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The bridge, along the route of the Lincoln Highway, carries U.S. Route 1/9 Truck and the East Coast Greenway between the West Side of Jersey City and Kearny Point in Kearny. The most recent of many crossings at the location, the current bridge was completed in 1954. It is owned by and operated by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), and is required by the Title 33 of the Code of Federal Regulations to open on signal for maritime traffic. In 2007 it was designated the Shawn Carson and Robert Nguyen Memorial Bridge.
Lincoln Highway Hackensack River Bridge
1974 view
Approaching from west
Route of the Lincoln Highway
Note: A fully interactive online map of the Lincoln Highway and all of its re-alignments, markers, monuments and historic points of interest can be viewed at the Lincoln Highway Association Official Map website.
Sign marking the eastern terminus of the Lincoln Highway at the intersection of 42nd Street and Broadway in Times Square, New York
Approaching Hackensack River along Newark Plank Road
The Lincoln Highway crossed Prairie Creek in southwestern Platte County, Nebraska on this bridge. This is part of a 1.2-mile (2.0 km) section of the highway that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Lincoln Highway Marker - Genoa