The decision settles a big lingering question: whether the new bridge will need to match the current bridge's 178-foot clearance, which would require a drawbridge.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Signage warns the driver of a cargo truck that the truck exceeds the 12-foot-tall clearance threshold of the Pennsylvania Avenue ...

Baltimore’s corner of the Chesapeake Bay has had a fixed ceiling of sorts — the 185-feet vertical clearance of the area’s bridges — for the past 70 years. Soon, authorities will decide if they want to ...

Approval of a 116-foot fixed span is a milestone in the effort to build a new Interstate 5 Bridge. Eliminating the prospect of a drawbridge answers one of the major questions surrounding the project a ...