The agreement directs Tacoma Narrows Constructors to build the new bridge and convert the existing one to a one-way bridge for $615 million. Financing costs will push the total cost to $849 million.

April: Construction begins on the second Narrows Bridge. May: Robert E. Drake, a carpenter working on the west anchorage, is killed when a boom falls on him.

OLYMPIA -- More than half the steel for the second Tacoma Narrows Bridge will likely come from foreign sources, according to Department of Transportation officials and labor leaders. The rest will ...

The second bridge would open to traffic in April 2007 if the project stays on schedule. That's when motorists would begin paying a $3 round-trip toll, rising to $6 within 10 years. Tolls would ...

OLYMPIA — A bill to allow construction of a second bridge across the Tacoma Narrows passed the House on Monday, breaking an impasse that stalled the project for more than a year. House Bill 2723 ...

“The second Tacoma Narrows Bridge, built from 1948 to 1951, has perforated girders and open grating in the deck that lets the wind pass through,” according to History Link.

When a newsroom debate became a bridge too far, we asked for a second opinion. According to the vast majority of you, our eastern-most bridge on the North Shore is called the Second Narrows bridge ...

The first Second Narrows bridge opened on Nov. 7, 1925, and was built in three sections — a 760-metre Vancouver side, 1,220-metre North Vancouver side and a 56-metre bascule span that lifted to ...