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 ...

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 ...

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

Officials have proposed a new alignment and some design tweaks for Baltimore’s new Francis Scott Key Bridge, looking to speed ...

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 ...

As per rule, vertical clearance of five metres is needed for bridges built over waterbodies. But preliminary inspection found that the bridge has only 2.3m vertical clearance.

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.

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.

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.

MDOT records indicate the bridge currently has a 13-foot, 10-inch vertical clearance. Federal standards state bridges must be, at a minimum, 14 feet high in urban areas and at 16 feet high in ...

Some lanes on the Vincent Thomas Bridge will be closed during overnight hours for several days next week so workers can perform repairs on the bridge’s finger joints, the California Department of ...

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.