Greenville Bridge 3.81

The Greenville Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Mississippi River, in the United States, carrying US 82 and US 278 between Refuge, Mississippi, and Shives, Arkansas. When it opened in 2010, it was the fourth-longest cable-stayed bridge in North America.The Benjamin G. Humphreys Bridge, the first bridge to connect the two towns, had become functionally obsolete. Its narrow road had only two lanes with no shoulders. Because of its location near a sharp bend in the Mississippi River, the bridge had become a hazard to river traffic; barges and towboats frequently collided with it. In 1994, a study concluded that a new bridge was needed and the old one should be torn down. Construction was begun in 2001 and the new bridge opened in 2010. In 2011, the process of removing the old bridge began.DescriptionOpened in 2010, the Greenville Bridge carries US 82/US 278 over the Mississippi River between Refuge, Mississippi, and Shives, Arkansas. It is located 0.5mi down river from the original bridge, built in 1940. Designed by HNTB, it is a four-lane cable-stayed bridge with more than 2.5mi of bridge deck straddled by two concrete towers 425ft feet high and anchored by concrete piers planted 120ft below the riverbed. It has four fans of strand steel cable connected to the top of the towers which support the deck.