Helena Bridge
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| Carries | 2 lanes of US 49 |
| Crosses | Mississippi River |
| Locale | Helena-West Helena, Arkansas and Lula, Mississippi |
| ID number | 000000000002899 |
| Design | Cantilever bridge |
| Longest span | 804 feet (245 m) |
| Total length | 5,204 feet (1,586 m) |
| Width | 28 feet (9 m) |
| Clearance below | 119 feet (36 m) |
| AADT | 7,000 |
| Opening date | July 27, 1961 |
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The Helena Bridge is a cantilever bridge carrying US 49 across the Mississippi River between Helena-West Helena, Arkansas and Lula, Mississippi.
The main cantilever span was modeled on the similar Benjamin G. Humphreys Bridge which had been built downstream by Arkansas & Mississippi roughly two decades earlier. However, the river navigation issues that led to the pending replacement of the Humphreys Bridge with the Greenville Bridge do not apply to the Helena Bridge, as the river curve here is far less severe than the one just upstream from the Humphreys Bridge.
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