Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge

The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, United States, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The bridge is named after former U.S. representative Arthur Ravenel Jr..

Other name(s)	Ravenel Bridge Cooper River Bridge
Characteristics
Design	Cable-stayed bridge
Statistics
Daily traffic	96,300
Location

The eight lane bridge satisfied the capacity of U.S. Route 17 when it opened in 2005 to replace two old cantilever truss bridges. The bridge has a main span of 1,546 feet (471 m), the third longest among cable-stayed bridges in the Western Hemisphere. It was built using the design-build method and was designed by Parsons Brinckerhoff.

Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge Media

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  Arthur Ravenel, Jr.

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  Road deck of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge

• This is a photo of one of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge's diamond-shaped towers

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  Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge with the old Cooper River Bridges

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  Fireworks celebration to precede the opening of the new bridge, July 2005

• Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge view from Patriot's Point, July 2006. The last fragments of the two old bridges can be seen in the background.

Other websites

Media related to Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge at Wikimedia Commons

• Ravenel Bridge | South Carolina Picture Project Archived 2018-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
• The Official Website for the Cooper River Bridge Archived 2020-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, from SCDOT
• Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge at Structurae
• The Bridge Builders, Special Supplement from the Post & Courier
• The Story of the Building of the Arthur Ravenel Bridge, Site of Frank Starmer
• Unbuilding (demolition) of the Grace and Pearman Bridges, Site of Frank Starmer
• Cooper River Bridge Run