Charleston Police Department reported a 'suspicious package' found at the base of the bridge on the Mt. The loop is about a 7 mile bike ride and allows you to see the bridge, get up close to the USS Yorktown, and take a boat ride through the harbor. The Ravenel Bridge was closed in both directions Saturday. Then ride your bike from Patriots Point across the bridge and back to the Maritime Center. Another option is to park at the Maritime Center and ride the water taxi over to Patriots Point. So instead I went to the Daily and had some feta toast. Got in my car and tried to make it downtown to be met by a blockade of the bridge due to a suspicious package. If you are looking to ride your bicycle across the bridge, parking is available on both sides. This morning I got up, and I decided I was going to go. The middle of the bridge offers an amazing view of the sun setting over the Cooper River. The best time of day to walk or bike the bridge is at sunset. The path is named in memory of Garrett Wonders who lost his life in a bicycle-vehicle collision. Ships will run aground on the islands before colliding with the towers.Īlong with eight lanes of travel for vehicles, the bridge also has a 12 foot wide path named Wonders’ Way for bike and pedestrian traffic. To protect the bridge from drifting ships, the towers are flanked by one-acre rock islands. (WCSC) - Mount Pleasant Police released new information on the suspicious package that shut down the Ravenel Bridge and the nearby Waterfront Park late Saturday morning. The bridge is designed to withstand an earthquake of 7.4 on the Richter magnitude scale without total failure. Engineers also considered the 1886 earthquake that nearly leveled Charleston. It is designed to withstand wind gusts in excess of 300 mph, much stronger than those of Hurricane Hugo that hit Charleston in 1989. The bridge’s structure is designed to withstand shipping accidents and natural disasters that have plagued Charleston’s history. Almost 80,000 cars travel on the bridge daily. Construction took less than four years and the bridge opened to traffic on July 16, 2005, at a cost of $632 million. The bridge, which connects Charleston and Mount Pleasant, is named after Charleston politician Arthur Ravenel who led the campaign for the bridge to be constructed over the Cooper River. The Arthur Ravenel Bridge is a 2.5 mile long cable-stayed suspension bridge with two diamond-shaped towers, each 575 feet high.
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