- Walking the Tacoma Narrows bridge is fine to get your steps in. Expect a lot of noise from vehicle traffic.
- The issues that led to the failure of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge played a major role in the design of this new bridge.
- The Tacoma Narrows Bridge with its shallow plate girders and narrower width gave the bridge a low stiffness and made a very flexible bridge .
- Views of the Mountains. Tacoma Narrows Bridge and Mount Rainier. Washington State Dept of Transportation / Flickr / CC BY 2.0.
- The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a pair of twin suspension bridges that span the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound in Pierce County, Washington.
- The second Tacoma Narrows Bridge, fifth longest suspension bridge in the US, was upgraded as a part of the new bridge project.
- Taken together, the 1940 and 1950 Tacoma Narrows bridges mark a significant turning point in the design of long-span suspension bridges.
- At the time of its construction in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the third longest suspension bridge in the world and it was famous for that.
- Also, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge had a 1/340 span-to-depth ratio, and its 1/75 width-to-span ratio was much less than the Golden Gate Bridge.