Free Bridge
There are two entrances to the Brooklyn Bridge on the Brooklyn side, andmany subwaysrun nearby in the borough for easy access to the pedestrian walkways. The bridge accommodates six lanes of automobile traffic, and there's no toll for vehicles crossing the Brooklyn Bridge.
This latter work necessitated a reconstruction of the Second Avenue Elevated Railroad, which was done without interruption of the elevated service in either direction. The stiffening trusses, one under each of the four cables, carry and distribute the loads on the floor system to the cables. These trusses are made heavy, so that the stress caused by the load at one point will be distributed over a considerable length of the cables. The main members of the trusses are made of nickel steel, even to the rivets used in these members. Nickel steel is a little more expensive, but much stronger than carbon steel.
T. Barnum, of circus fame, led 21 elephants across the bridge in an ilovenyc attempt to quell public fears about its stability. The bridge first opened to the public in 1883 in a dedication ceremony presided over by President Chester A. Arthur and New York Governor Grover Cleveland. Once you arrive in Brooklyn, there are two exits, one that leads down into DUMBO, and the other into Downtown Brooklyn.
However, with crowds and photo and view stops along the way you can expect walking the Brooklyn Bridge to take closer to 60 minutes plus depending entirely on you and your stops as well as the crowds. As we mentioned before, time spent driving on the Brooklyn Bridge can vary. If you’re traveling in the early morning or mid-day when everyone should be in their offices, you may be able to drive across the whole bridge without delays.
There is also steel embedded in the front of the anchorages as an anchor to the wind bracing and to give a rigid connection to the stiffening trusses. This steel, together with that anchoring the cables, weighs 2,700 tons. Besides this, there are 900 tons of steel reinforcing bars used in the construction of the anchorages themselves. One property of all steel structures that the public thinks little about is that of expansion and contraction, and no other property has caused more annoyance to engineers.