Work to increase the height of the Talmadge Memorial Bridge could start as early as next year, but first Georgia highway officials are asking the public for feedback on their plan. The proposed ...

In other words, the Talmadge Bridge may have been a two-fer: A memorial to a deceased Georgia governor, and a middle finger aimed at Washington. I’ve attached the documents below: ...

The $175 million plan to replace the cables of the Talmadge Memorial Bridge, thus raising it so that taller shipping vessels can access the Port of Savannah, is not a long-term fix, according to ...

An aerial view shows the Talmadge Memorial Bridge, a suspension bridge over the Savannah River in Georgia. Georgia Department of Transportation Wollwerth Imagery Work to increase the height of the ...

Savannah’s City Council on Thursday passed a resolution to change the name of the city’s towering Talmadge Memorial Bridge to the Savannah Bridge. The measure said the bridge was named for a ...

Talmadge Memorial Bridge across the Savannah River. (Sally Hale/AP) The future of the Georgia ports is never far from the mind of Executive Director Griff Lynch.

The Talmadge Bridge made headlines earlier this year because of efforts to change its name. It was named in the 1950s for former Gov. Eugene Talmadge, a segregationist Democrat who served three ...

Whether they're traveling from Georgia or South Carolina, drivers continue to be greeted with signs that read the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge, but, if they're in the in the city of Savannah and ...

Rename Talmadge Bridge for Rep. Lewis The death of Rep. John Lewis gives Georgia the opportunity to honor him and right a historical wrong by renaming the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge in ...

It honors Eugene Talmadge, a former Georgia governor and white supremacist who died in 1946. Girl Scouts want lawmakers to name it instead for Juliette Gordon Low, the Savannah native who founded ...

Renaming the Talmadge Bridge the Savannah Memorial Bridge would honor all who have come before and will be a part of our lives in the future. Savannah has always honored its dead and living.W e ...