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The Burlington-Bristol Bridge is a Truss bridge with a Lift Span crossing the Delaware River from Burlington, New Jersey to Bristol, Pennsylvania in the United States . It was constructed from 1929 to 1931. The center roadway lifted by the action of two large concrete slabs of slightly greater weight than the lifted roadway which block the roadway when fully down. They are set in downwards motion to lift the bridge by a very slight action of the motors, as gravity does the rest. The two-lane bridge has a total length of 2,301 feet (701 meters), and is operated by the Burlington County Bridge Commission . It is a major route to Philadelphia for the area's residents and usually preferred to the other bridges by bus drivers since the tolls are lower. Rather unusually, a public non-toll road travels directly underneath the approach span. A municipal garage is also located underneath the rising road after the toolbooth. During times when the bridge is up for a boat passing underneath large traffic backups are created on Keim Boulevard, the road that functions as the route to the bridge from U.S. Highway 130 and Broad Street. The tollbooths are equipped with E-ZPass and the toll is paid by those cars going north to the Pennsylvania side. New bridges for the site have been proposed before, but most would require the access ramp to extend out to Route 130, which would result in the destruction of historical buildings, as well as the police station and large businesses near the bridge. EXTERNAL LINKS
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