Greenville Bridge

Greenville Bridge
Greenville Bridge
	The nearly completed bridge, viewed from the Arkansas side (October 2009)
Coordinates	33°17′14″N 91°09′15″W / 33.28722°N 91.15417°W
Carries	4 lanes of US 82 / US 278
Crosses	Mississippi River
Locale	Refuge, Mississippi, and Shives, Arkansas
Characteristics
Design	Cable-stayed bridge
Total length	13,560 feet (4,133 m)
Width	88 feet (27 m)
Longest span	1,378 feet (420 m)
Clearance below	122 feet (37 m)
History
Opened	August 4, 2010
Location

The Greenville Bridge, or the Jesse Brent Memorial Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Mississippi River, in the United States, carrying US 82 and US 278 between Refuge, Mississippi, and Shives, Arkansas. When it opened in 2010, it was the fourth-longest cable-stayed bridge in North America.

The Benjamin G. Humphreys Bridge, the first bridge to connect the two towns, had become functionally obsolete. Its narrow road had only two lanes with no shoulders. Because of its location near a sharp bend in the Mississippi River, the bridge had become a hazard to river traffic; barges and towboats frequently collided with it. In 1994, a study concluded that a new bridge was needed and the old one should be torn down. Construction was begun in 2001 and the new bridge opened in 2010. In 2011, the process of removing the old bridge began.