The wonderful Talmage Memorial Bridge which crosses the Savannah River from Savannah, GA to South Carolina. Completed in November 1990, the new Talmadge Memorial cable-stayed bridge replaced the old Talmadge cantilever truss bridge (built in 1953), which had become a danger for large ships entering the port in Savannah, Georgia, the largest single terminal container port on the United States eastern seaboard. The new bridge provides 185 ft.(56.4 m.) of vertical navigational clearance. Its horizontal clearance is 1,023 feet with both main piers located on the north and south banks of the Savannah River. With a main span of 1100 ft. (335 m.) and a total length of 1.9 miles (3.06 km.) the new Talmadge Memorial carrier 4 lanes of traffic over the Savannah River between Georgia to South Carolina (Source: Georgia Department of Transportation).