Eleventh Street Bridge

The Bridge Lover

This beautiful through truss bridge and former vertical-lift bridge was demolished in 2018. What a waste. 11th Street used to continuously cross all four shipping channels along Puget Sound, but now with the loss of this bridge, only crosses two of them on each side, leaving a discontinuous route in the middle. The Murray Morgan Memorial Bridge crosses the Thea Foss Channel on the west side, and the Hylebos Bridge crosses the Hylebos Channel on the east side. The bridge over the Blair Channel has been gone for a while now, and with the loss of the 11th Street Bridge over the Pullyuap Channel, getting around the industrial flats in this area just became much more complicated, as no new bridges is planned for this location. The Murray Morgan Bridge appears to be safe for the near future, but the Hylebos Bridge is still in question. It is essential that neither one of these historic bridges be demolished, given that two of four historic bridges at this location already have been!

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