Whats that new bridge to Ford Island in Pearl Harbor?
That’s the Admiral Clarey Bridge, completed in April 1998, to replace the ferries that used to connect Ford Island’s battleship docks and officer housing to the rest of the Pearl Harbor naval base. It’s 4700 feet long, with a retractable floating span in the middle that is the world’s largest openable span (when fully retracted, the navigation channel is 650 feet wide), allowing the largest warships to move freely around Pearl Harbor when necessary. The bridge and Ford Island are normally closed to the general public. However, they can take shuttle buses over the bridge, for tours of the decommissioned battleship U.S.S. Missouri docked at Ford Island. Part of the island may eventually be opened to commercial development, which may open the bridge to regular use by the general public. Excellent views of the bridge are possible from the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial and its visitor center on shore, as well as (from a distance) Aiea Heights Drive and Halawa Heights Drive above and to the northe
