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Benjamin Franklin Bridge

Artwork: #527 of 825 by Sonali Gangane

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07/17/2012

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Sonali Gangane 13 Days Ago

Pune - India

Nadine and Bob,Tahnkyou very much for the feature in All Natural beauty of this world.

North Brunswick, NJ - United States

Jose, Thankyou so much for the feature in Stop time with art group.

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Krista,Thanks a lot for featuring my work.

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Benjamin Franklin Bridge

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Sonali Gangane

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The Benjamin Franklin Bridge started life bearing the prosaic moniker, the Delaware River Port Authority Bridge. After it was finished in 1926 the bridge competed with the energetic ferries that darted across the Delaware, and had done so since William Penn's time. Much like Philadelphia after Benjamin Franklin's arrival in 1724, it took a few years for the populace to get accustomed to the marvel in its midst. It would only be a matter of time before the arcing wonder � then the largest suspension bridge in the world � would supplant those below. In 1956, recognizing the beauty and wonder of the span, it was renamed for Ben Franklin.
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The bridge originally included six vehicular lanes and two streetcar tracks on the main deck, with provision for a rapid transit track in each direction outboard of the deck's stiffening trusses, which rise above the deck rather than lie beneath it. The tracks were built to the nonstandard broad gauge of the Public Service Company of New Jersey's Camden streetcar system;[citation needed] the design called for the streetcars to cross the bridge from Camden to Philadelphia, enter an underground terminal beneath the bridge's west entrance plaza, and return to Camden via the opposite track. Streetcar stations were also built in the bridge's anchorages. None of the streetcar facilities were ever placed in service, as Public Service ran no cars across the bridge from its opening until the company abandoned its Camden streetcar system in 1932; after that, the tracks were removed and the space converted to vehicular lanes.
The outer pair of rapid transit tracks went into service in 1936 with the opening of the Bridge Line subway connecting Broadway and City Hall in Camden with 8th and Market streets in Philadelphia; the Bridge Line, extended to 16th and Locust in 1952, began carrying PATCO trains in 1969. Today, it carries PATCO's Lindenwold High-Speed Line (PATCO Speedline) via connecting tunnels on both sides of the bridge.
The bridge was designed by Paul Philippe Cret, the architect who was also in large part responsible for Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Driving over the bridge and passing under its two tall towers connected by tapering cables, puts one in mind of Dorothy entering into Kingdom of Oz � there is a fearful exhilaration. This bridge does not merely span the Delaware � it soars over the river. Painted a resonant blue, at some points the bridge seems to merge with the sky.
In popular culture
A 2006 production of the musical Godspell at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, directed by Ryan Oczkowski, was set under the Franklin Bridge, with Jesus' followers portrayed as living in a shack there.
The bridge is one of the landmarks seen in the opening credits of the television series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
The bridge can be seen in a trailer for the 2013 film World War Z.
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