How much did Huey P. Long Bridge cost to build?
The Huey P. Long Bridge in Jefferson Parish is the railway and highway cantilever truss bridge across the Mississippi River west of New Orleans, Louisiana, designed by the Polish-American engineer Ralph Modjeski and named a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2012, opened in December 1935 with a lane widening completed on 16 June 2013. ASCE says the bridge had a total construction cost of 9,424,981 dollars, more than 3 million under its 13 million dollar budget, while Wikipedia lists 13.4 million dollars.
Final project cost
$9.425 million
Cost basis: 1935
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Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Final project cost1935
Project record
Opened or launched
American Society of Civil Engineers1935