1974 I-64+US-119 Carter Memorial/Fort Hill Bridge over Kanawha River in Charleston, WV

(Bridge Hunter broke Mar 22, 2023; B&T_info; B&T_photos; Satellite)

I-64 crosses the Kanawha River four times in the Charleston area of West Virginia. Going upstream:

• Donald M. Legg Memorial Bridge
• Kanawha River Bridge in South Charleston
• Carter Memorial Bridge
• Chuck Yeager Bridge

This is the most traveled bridge in West Virginia. [WVDOT]

As of 2013, the daily traffic was 107,000 vehicles. [theclio]

Street View, Oct 2015

 

Jdc120763 via wikimedia, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

B&T_photos, this webpage has many more photos

 

B&T_info
"The Eugene A. Carter Memorial Bridge carries Interstate 64 and US Route 119 across the Kanawha River in downtown Charleston, West Virginia. Originally named Fort Hill Bridge after the adjoining hill, the crossing was renamed after Eugene A. Carter in 2005. Carter helped form the first local Teamsters Union."
The Triangle District would be gutted by the chosen I-64 route so they fought it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. But they lost and 1,000 residences were removed to build the 6-lane viaduct through the district.
[1974 had struck me as a late date for an Interstate highway. Deciding (fighting) how to route I-64 through or around Charleston is why it took so long to build it.]

The Triangle District was an "underserved neighborhood." [wikipedia]

Steve Johnson, Dec 2022

Tripadvisor
Charleston Photo: Looking up the Kanawha River - first bridge is the I-64 bridge.
[The second bridge is the South Side Bridge.]