In Georgia, authorities are considering replacing the 33-year-old Talmadge Memorial Bridge, which has 185 feet of vertical clearance with a 230-foot one.

Vertical clearance — the space between the water and the bottom of a bridge’s roadway — is one of many factors that will be decided as state officials work with a selected Key Bridge builder.

The vertical clearances were verified by TDOT to have been correct as previously reported at 17’11”. The US 27 bridge in reference has a minimum vertical clearance of 33 feet and was not struck.

N.C. Department of Transportation Division 3 Bridge Program Manager Amanda Glynn explained the vertical clearance over the Intracoastal Waterway channel is 65 feet from mean high water – the U.S ...

A ten-wheel truck was stuck in an underpass after its bungling driver misjudged the vertical clearance. The lorry tried to pass under the Mahanam Bridge in Ang Thong province, Thailand, while ...

The new permanent below-deck girder bridge span to replace the 160-ft-long section that toppled into the Skagit River in May won’t have any vertical height clearance concerns. And soon the ...

A new bridge proposed to span the Cape Fear River in Wilmington should include a vertical clearance of at least 135 feet to meet current and future navigation needs, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a ...

Crews aim to increase the vertical clearance on the bridges, which cross over Interstate 80: Magazine Street, Benicia Road, Georgia Street, Springs Road, Tennessee Street and Redwood Street.

New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge's proposed replacement features matching, 190-foot towers, yet officials fear it poses a "height restriction" problem.