Summit Bridge

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bridge_name= Summit Bridge


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carries= 4 lanes of US 301 / DE 71 / DE 896
crosses= Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
locale= Summit Bridge, Delaware
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design= Cantilever bridge
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The Summit Bridge carries U.S. Route 301 and Delaware Routes 71 and 896 across the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, connecting Newark, Delaware with Dover, Delaware (via Delaware Rt. 71) and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge (via U.S. Rt. 301). The bridge also carries Delaware Bicycle Route 1, a bicycle route that spans the length of the state of Delaware, across the canal. Opened in 1961, the Summit Bridge was the second four-lane high-level crossing in Delaware and was designed for a future upgrade of U.S. Rt. 301 to a four-lane limited access toll road connecting the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and the Delaware Turnpike (I-95), but such plans have been shelved by both the Maryland and Delaware Departments of Transportation (it has since been resurrected by DelDOT as a realignment of US 301 connecting Maryland and Delaware Route 1 near the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Bridge). The current bridge replaces a former swing span structure that was demolished when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rerouted the canal to a new sea-level channel south of Lums Pond State Park. A construction project on the approaches to the bridge currently has traffic reduced to two lanes across the bridge.

ee also

* List of crossings of the Cheasapeake & Delaware Canal

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structure = Bridges
place = Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
bridge = Summit Bridge
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upstream text = West
upstream = Chesapeake City Bridge
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downstream text = East
downstream = Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Lift Bridge
downstream signs = "Norfolk Southern"