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Line 21: |clearance = |below = {{convert|52|ft|m|abbr=on}} |begin = October 26, 2006<ref name="groundbreaking">{{cite news|url=http://www.ketv.com/newsarchive/10164746/detail.html |title=Ground Broken On Pedestrian Bridge |publisher=[[KETV]]-TV |location=Omaha, NE |date=October 26, 2006 |accessdate=November 17, 2006 | |complete = |open = {{start date|2008|09|28}}<ref name="opening">{{cite news |url= http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26661026 |title= Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge To Open September 28 |publisher= KETV-TV |location= Omaha, NE |date= September 11, 2008 |accessdate= September 11, 2008}} |map_cue = |map_image = Line 30: |coordinates = {{coord|41.265634|-95.92231|region:US_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} }} The '''Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge'''<ref name="naming">{{cite news |url= http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10428458 |title= Omaha vote makes name official: Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge |work= [[Omaha World-Herald]] |date= September 9, 2008 |accessdate= September 9, 2008 | Interest in a landmark bridge across the Missouri River arose after Omaha and Council Bluffs began replacing their older crossings with [[girder bridge]]s which do not have towers (most notably the [[Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge]]).{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}} The bridge is named after former Nebraska Senator [[Bob Kerrey]], who secured $18 million of federal funding for the bridge in 2000.<ref name="naming" /> Line 40: The lights on the bridge were donated by [[The Gallup Organization|Gallup]], which has their corporate headquarters and Gallup University located on the Missouri River adjacent the Omaha landing of the bridge. The bridge lights include programmable controls that can display multiple colors in the large lights at the top of the towers and alter brightness and timing of the lights that run the entire length of the bridge. The lights were officially unveiled in a ceremony on September 13, 2008. The bridge lights were turned on while the [[Phil Collins]] song "''In The Air Tonight''" was played over a [[PA system]]. The event was accompanied by fireworks. Due to safety concerns prompted by the [[2011 Missouri River floods]], the entrance on the Iowa side was closed on July 2 of that year.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ketv.com/news/28430963/detail.html |publisher= KETV-TV |location= Omaha, NE |accessdate= April 5, 2012 |title= Omaha News, Weather and Sports - Nebraska News - KETV NewsWatch 7 }} {{dead link|date=June 2012}}</ref> It reopened September 3, 2011.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Iowa_Side_Of_Pedestrian_Bridge_Reopens_129197808.html |title= Iowa Side of Pedestrian Bridge Reopens |publisher= [[WOWT]] |location= Omaha, NE |accessdate= April 5, 2012}}</ref> In 2015, the bridge joined Twitter as @BobTBridge, an effort by the Omaha Convention & Visitors Bureau.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.omaha.com/living/omaha-bridge-gains-ability-to-speak-joins-twitter/article_263b7ad0-265f-11e5-a54b-b39e4a60d2ab.html|title=Omaha bridge gains ability to speak, joins Twitter|date=9 July 2015 }}</ref> <gallery> Line 50: ==See also== {{Portal|Transport|Engineering|Iowa}}
*[[Trails in Omaha]] *[[List of crossings of the Missouri River]] Line 60: ==External links== *{{ *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIcPfm1bezM Video walking tour of bridge] Line 86: [[Category:Pedestrian bridges in Nebraska]] [[Category:Girder bridges in the United States]] [[Category: [[Category:2008 establishments in Nebraska]] | |||