Beginning Wednesday, Aug. 13, crews will begin a full replacement of the BI-40 bridge at I-40 near exit 85, just east of ...

A state lawmaker wants to allow local governments greater ability to remotely monitor bridges in need of repair and low ...

When drivers try to squeeze trucks under bridges with inadequate vertical clearance, it can tie up traffic and cause damage to the vehicle and the overhead structure. A too-tall vehicle on Interstate ...

The new New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge will be a “vertical lift” structure. But city officials want it to be not only functional but attractive, too.

Given the vertical clearance was 153 feet at the time of the contact, the crane was about 10 feet too high to transit under the bridge.

Vertical clearance is the distance from the water — in this case, the Patapsco River — to the bridge deck, and it dictates what size ships can fit under the structure. The length of the main ...

All bridges with a vertical clearance less than 14'6" show low-clearance warnings, both at the bridge and in advance of the structure.

Often, the pilots must rely on river gauges several miles from the bridge and so must also build in a safety margin for what's known as the vertical clearance, or the "air gap," under a bridge.

Bridge lifts began at 9 a.m. and will last 15-20 minutes to allow time for NOAA staff to laser scan the bridges to determine vertical clearances for publication on NOAA’s Electronic Navigational ...

The new permanent below-deck girder bridge span to replace the 160-ft-long section that toppled into the Skagit River in May won’t have any vertical height clearance concerns. And soon the ...

What’s now a draw bridge could become a fixed span bridge with a 60-foot vertical clearance. Stephen LaBelle is the Island Beach Club Board of Directors president.

In Ashtabula County, 12 of the 15 bridges over I-90 have clearances of 16½ to 17 feet, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation. Three are 14½ feet or less.