NARROW MEDIAN, SHOULDERS FORCE EXPRESSWAY INTO THE AIR

The Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority is working on a plan to build elevated reversible lanes over a narrow median strip that would lead to downtown Tampa, Florida. The only way the authority could realize such a project is through a segmental precast box girder bridge construction. A three-lane reversible facility would be about 59 ft (18 m) wide and extend more than 6 ft (2 m) over each inside lane of the existing expressway. Preliminary plans call for about 6 mi (9.7 km) of elevated expressway in three sections.

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Publication Date: 2000-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 14
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 70
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0885-7024
  • Serial URL: http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/newce/html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Box girder bridges; Central business districts; Commuters; Elevated structures; Express lanes; Expressways; Median lanes; Medians; Segmental construction
• Geographic Terms: Tampa (Florida)
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00790685
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 17 2000 12:00AM