The Jose Rizal Bridge carries 12th Avenue South over South Dearborn Street and
Interstate 90
Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental freeway and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It begins in Seattle, Washington, and travels through the Pacific Northwest, Mountain states, Mountain West, Great Pla ...
in
Seattle
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, connecting the
International District to
Beacon Hill. Built in 1911, and originally called the 12th Avenue South Bridge or the Dearborn Street Bridge, it was one of the first permanent steel bridges in Seattle.
It was renamed in honor of the Filipino patriot
José Rizal
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (, ; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is popularly considered a na ...
in 1974, though the official name is not well known by Seattleites. The bridge was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1982,
under its original name.
As a result of
Paul Schell's attempt to light several bridges for the Seattle Millennium Project, the bridge is illuminated by floodlights.
In 2002, a
police informant was found murdered near a homeless encampment under the bridge.
The bridge originally carried four lanes of traffic until 2021, when they were reduced to two lanes to accommodate a set of
protected bicycle lanes.
See also
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List of Seattle bridges
*
National Register of Historic Places listings in Seattle
References
External links
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1911 establishments in Washington (state)
Bridges completed in 1911
Bridges in Seattle
National Register of Historic Places in Seattle
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
Steel bridges in the United States
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