MacArthur Bridge

MacArthur Bridge may refer to:

MacArthur Bridge (Detroit)

The MacArthur Bridge is a bridge that spans the Detroit River between Detroit, Michigan and Belle Isle. The bridge, which features nineteen total arches across 2,193 feet (668 m), provides main access to Belle Isle. Completed in 1923 for $2,635,000 USD, it replaced a mostly wooden bridge that accidentally caught fire and was destroyed in 1915. The bridge, once known as the Belle Isle Bridge, was later renamed the Douglas MacArthur Bridge after General Douglas MacArthur in 1942. It was restored in 1986 at a cost of $11.5 million.

In 1913, William Edmund Scripps (of the Scripps publishing family), flew a Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company flying boat underneath the original Belle Isle Bridge.

Photo gallery

Entering Belle Isle from MacArthur Bridge

Entering Belle Isle from MacArthur Bridge

View of bridge from Belle Isle.

View of bridge from Belle Isle.

References

MacArthur Bridge (Manila)

MacArthur Bridge is a road bridge crossing the Pasig River between Padre Burgos Avenue in Ermita and Carlos Palanca Street in Santa Cruz. It replaced the Santa Cruz Bridge, which was destroyed in World War II.

History

MacArthur Bridge replaced the older Santa Cruz Bridge which was bombed when the Japanese retreated on the Battle of Manila. The bridge was constructed after the war and opened in 1952.

Use on the procession of the Black Nazarene.

The bridge is originally used as part of the route of the procession during the Feast of the Black Nazarene every January 9. However, in 2014, after the Department of Public Works and Highways called the bridge unstable to carry floods of devotees, later processions are soon rerouted to the adjacent Jones Bridge.

Douglas MacArthur monument

A monument for Douglas MacArthur stood on the foot of the south end of the bridge. The monument first stood in the facade of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, before it was moved into its present location after 1997.