From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

MacArthur Causeway

Bridge in Florida, United States of America

Field	Value
name	MacArthur Causeway
native_name	County Causeway
image	Watson Island.png
image_size	300px
caption	MacArthur Causeway, connecting Downtown Miami and South Beach
official_name	General Douglas MacArthur Causeway
carries	6 lanes of

crosses	Biscayne Bay
locale	Miami to Miami Beach
maint	FDOT
designer	Frederic R. Harris, Inc., American Bridge Company
design	Causeway, beam, girder
material	Slabs, girders, fill
length	3.5 mi
mainspan	0.4 mi
clearance	68 ft
open

The General Douglas MacArthur Causeway is a six-lane causeway that connects Downtown Miami to South Beach via Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County.

The highway is the singular roadway connecting the mainland and beaches to Watson Island and the bay neighborhoods of Palm Island, Hibiscus Island, and Star Island. The MacArthur Causeway carries State Road 836 and State Road A1A over the Biscayne Bay via a girder bridge. Interstate 395 ends at Fountain Street, the entrance to Palm Island Park which has a traffic light as well as bus stops.

History

In the late 1910s, with the deteriorating wooden Collins Bridge (now, the Venetian Causeway) as the only direct land route between mainland Miami and the barrier islands of Miami Beach, construction on the roadway began in 1917. The roadway, dedicated as the County Causeway, was completed in 1920. Watson Island was reclaimed surrounding the western end of the roadway, completed in 1926.

Having undergone several lane and structural expansions following opening of the original two-lane road, the State Road Board and Dade County Commission voted to rename the causeway in honor of World War II General Douglas MacArthur in 1942. The causeway was accessible from mainland Miami via Biscayne Boulevard and intersecting side streets through the 1960s. Construction of direct highway access to I-395 was complete in the 1970s. The replacement of the westernmost and easternmost spans began in the 1990s, as the eastbound lanes of the bridges were completed in 1995 and westbound lanes finished in 1997.

Gallery

File:MacArthur Causeway 20100520.jpg|Large portion of the causeway. Fisher Island and Port of Miami are in the background. Watson Island is in the foreground. File:Macarthurcauseway.jpg|MacArthur Causeway eastbound from Miami to Miami Beach (in far background). File:Macarthur Causeway at night.jpg|Macarthur Causeway at night as seen from Watson Island

References

Lavender, Abraham. (2002). "Miami Beach in 1920". [[Arcadia Publishing]].
(April 6, 1964). "Causeway Our Thanks for Bataan". [[The Miami News]].

Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

roads-in-miami roads-in-miami-beach,-florida roads-in-miami-dade-county,-florida causeways-in-miami-dade-county,-florida bridges-completed-in-1920 intracoastal-waterway 1920-establishments-in-florida u.s.-route-41 concrete-bridges-in-the-united-states girder-bridges-in-the-united-states road-bridges-in-florida beam-bridges-in-the-united-states bridges-of-the-united-states-numbered-highway-system

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about MacArthur Causeway — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report