New Orleans CCC Bridge

The Crescent City Connection Bridge is part of the New Orleans skyline, and the bridge is vital to understanding this beautiful city. It's very much an icon of The Big Easy. Strong, straight and robust, yet with a gentle grace that's nice to look at, the CCC is a staple of New Orleans. It separates the West Bank from the East Bank. It crosses the mighty, muddy Mississippi!!! It separates Algiers from the rest of New Orleans.

Easy on, easy off, dependable, graceful, well-traveled, and experienced - those are great attributes for a resource you might call on at times when you need to get across the Mississippi. The drive over the bridge is not perfect. It's a terrible bottleneck sometimes. There is a certain pride that goes along with saying, "THATS THE CONNECTION!!!!, I DRIVE THAT MONSTER EVRYDAY!"

Ride across the Crescent City Connection at night, as a passenger, and take a good look at that NOLA skyline. It's beautiful, and the bridge offers an excellent view.

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New Orleans - City Of Iron Lace

The lacy, wrought iron balconies overlooking the narrow streets of the New Orleans French Quarter are evocative of another time, another place and they are among some of the most photographed attractions in the City.

The balconies of New Orleans have seen a lot in their centuries of grandeur. Most of them are made of wrought iron in a process that precedes the age of factory production; the iron was literally scored and hammered by hand, and much of the energy of the artist still seems to linger on in the iron�s strength and endurance. Can it be possible that some blacksmiths continue to be proud of their work from beyond the grave?

So the next time you visit New Orleans, as you walk through the bustling streets and quaint alleys of the old Quarter, remember to look up and wave. You might just be greeting a visitor from the past, a revenant spirit from another domain!

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New Orleans Crescent City Connection Bridge

The Crescent City Connection Bridge (CCC), formerly the Greater New Orleans Bridge (GNO), refers to twin cantilever bridges crossing over the Mississippi River in the parishes of Jefferson, Orleans, and St. Bernard. The Crescent City Connection Bridge ranks the fifth-longest cantilever bridge in the world and the farthest downstream bridge on the Mississippi River. The bridge is 4,093 meters in length; 28 meters wide (westbound) and 16 meters in width (eastbound).

Development of the Crescent City Connection Bridge (CCC) began in 1954 and it was opened in 1958. At that point of time, it was actually the longest cantilever bridge in the world. The daily traffic load on the eastbound part is roughly 180,000.
Construction on the GNO Bridge No. 2 began in March 1981. Traffic first crossed over the GNO Bridge No. 2 in September 1988.
Both bridges have been in continuous operation since 1988 as a unitary bridge facility having a total of eight general traffic lanes plus two Transit / High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes. The Crescent City Connection ranks as the fifth most traveled toll bridge in the United States, with the annual traffic volume exceeding 63 million.

Following a 1989 public contest to select a name for the bridges, a Louisiana Legislative Act officially designated the bridges as the "Crescent City Connection."

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