![]() ![]() In 1967 the span was renamed the Lacey V. ![]() Paid for in largest part by revenue bonds, with major financial support from the New Deal's Public Works Administration (PWA), the project, including a tunnel through Mount Baker Ridge, was dedicated on July 2, 1940. Murrow (1904-1966), then Washington's highways director, embraced Hadley's concept, and construction finally began on December 29, 1938. After nearly two decades of sporadic consideration, strident opposition, and bureaucratic bumbling, in 1937 the state legislature created the Washington Toll Bridge Authority, which could issue revenue bonds to finance toll bridges and tunnels. The practicality of the technology was recognized first by Seattle civil engineer Homer More Hadley (1885-1967) in 1920, and he shared his idea with fellow engineers in 1921. When the Lake Washington Floating Bridge opened in 1940, it was the largest thing afloat in the world and the first bridge to use reinforced-concrete pontoons. ![]()
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