The East Channel Bridge is a bridge carrying Interstate 90

Interstate 90

Interstate 90 is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It is the northernmost coast-to-coast interstate, and parallels US 20 for the most part. Its western terminus is in Seattle, at Edgar Martinez Drive S. near Safeco Field and CenturyLink Field, and its eastern terminus is in...

 from Mercer Island, Washington

Mercer Island, Washington

Mercer Island is a city in King County, Washington, United States and the name of the island in Lake Washington on which the city sits. The population was 22,699 at the 2010 census....

, to Bellevue, Washington

Bellevue, Washington

Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle, it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. The population was 122,363 at the 2010 census.Downtown Bellevue is...

, over the East Channel of Lake Washington

Lake Washington

Lake Washington is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle. It is the largest lake in King County and the second largest in the state of Washington, after Lake Chelan. It is bordered by the cities of Seattle on the west, Bellevue and Kirkland on the east, Renton on the south and...

, which separates Mercer Island from the rest of the Eastside

Eastside (King County, Washington)

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The original bridge was opened November 10, 1923, and was the first bridge to reach the island. George Lightfoot

George Lightfoot

George Washington Lightfoot was most commonly known as the "father" of the Lake Washington Floating Bridge. Lightfoot was a very important citizen of early Mercer Island. He also was a vaudeville musician who performed under the stage name, "The Jolly Hobo Globetrotter".-References:* Gellay, J....

, the father of the Floating Bridge, had the charge of opening the bridge for boats. In 1940, it was demolished and replaced. Currently, two parallel bridges carry I-90 traffic at this location. A steel box girder bridge, built in 1981, carries westbound I-90 traffic. Another steel box girder bridge, built in 1988, carries eastbound I-90 traffic.

In popular culture

This bridge is featured in World in Conflict

World in Conflict

World in Conflict, or WiC, is a real-time tactical video game developed by the Swedish video game company Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows. The game was released in September 2007...

 in the map, as_bridge. During the course of the single player campaign, the bridge must be held against invading Soviet forces. It is later destroyed to hinder the Soviet advance from Seattle.

See also

• Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge
  Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge
  The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge is a floating bridge that carries the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 across Lake Washington from Seattle to Mercer Island, Washington. It is the second longest floating bridge on Earth at , whereas the longest is the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge just a few...
  
   and Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge
  Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge
  The Third Lake Washington Bridge, officially the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, is the fifth-longest floating bridge in the world, at 5,811 feet...
  
  , which carry I-90 over Lake Washington to Seattle.