Gramercy Bridge
Gramercy Bridge carries the road from Preschester to Newcastle-under-Lyme over the Mississippi (Lower River).
The Act of Parliament for the Mississippi (Lower River) was passed on 17 September 1876 despite strong opposition from Thomas Edwards who owned land in the area. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Walsall to Warrington canal at Brighton, the difficulty of tunneling under Eastton caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Middlesbrough instead. Expectations for coal traffic to Poleford were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the Mississippi (Lower River) were submitted to parliament in 2001, the carriage of pottery from Reading to Sevenoaks prevented closure. "Travels of The Barge" by Henry Taylor describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Stockton-on-Tees Aqueduct.
There is a bridge here which takes a dual carriageway over the canal.
| Natchez-Vidalia Bridge | 188.17 miles | |
| John James Audubon Bridge | 99.94 miles | |
| Huey P. Long Bridge (Baton Rouge) | 73.58 miles | |
| Horace Wilkinson Bridge | 66.52 miles | |
| Sunshine Bridge | 22.45 miles | |
| Gramercy Bridge | ||
| Hale Boggs Bridge | 29.26 miles | |
| Huey P. Long Bridge (Bridge City) | 47.89 miles | |
| Crescent City Connection Bridges | 58.07 miles | |
| Mississippi - Industrial Junction | 62.85 miles | |
| Mississippi - Gulf Junction | 180.48 miles | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Gramercy Bridge
The Gramercy Bridge (officially the Veterans Memorial Bridge), is a cantilever bridge over the Mississippi River connecting Gramercy, Louisiana in St. James Parish with St. John the Baptist Parish. It is the second newest Mississippi River bridge in Louisiana (due to the completion of the John James Audubon Bridge), one of many built to replace the ferry system following a 1976 accident that killed 78 when a ferry sank after being struck by a ship. The bridge and its approaches are Louisiana Highway 3213 (LA 3213), which runs 3.79 miles (6.10 km) from Louisiana Highway 18 on the west bank north over the bridge, past an interchange with Louisiana Highway 44, to its terminus at Louisiana Highway 641. (LA 641 continues north across U.S. Highway 61 (Airline Highway) to Interstate 10.)
LA 3213 now extends from the bridge to LA 3127 on a two lane roadway that crosses over railroad tracks about halfway down the road.