Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Suspension bridge between Philadelphia and Camden, United States.

The Benjamin Franklin Bridge is a steel suspension crossing over the Delaware River linking Philadelphia in Pennsylvania with Camden in New Jersey. The structure carries multiple traffic lanes, PATCO rail tracks, and separate paths for pedestrians and cyclists.

Plans to bridge the Delaware began in 1818, and the Delaware River Bridge Joint Commission was created in 1919. Construction started on January 6, 1922, under chief engineer Ralph Modjeski, with Leon Moisseiff as design engineer and Paul Philippe Cret as supervising architect; 15 workers died during the work. The bridge opened on July 1, 1926, three days before the nation's 150th anniversary, and its 533-meter span was the world's longest until the Ambassador Bridge opened in 1929. It was renamed the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in 1955 while the Walt Whitman Bridge was under construction.

The bridge was renamed in 1955 after Benjamin Franklin when a second Delaware crossing, the Walt Whitman Bridge, was under construction. Its original name was the Delaware River Bridge. The bridge was dedicated during the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition, which marked 150 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Pedestrian walkways run along both sides of the deck, elevated above and separated from the traffic lanes, but only one is open at a time. The seven vehicular lanes are split by a movable concrete "zipper" barrier, with overhead red and green signals showing which lanes are open; typically four lanes run westbound in the morning rush and three eastbound in the evening. Westbound traffic pays a toll; the eastbound direction is free.

The bridge's seven vehicle lanes are split by a movable concrete "zipper" barrier, installed in 2000-2001; overhead red and green signals show which lanes are open. Before it, one lane stayed closed at peak times to reduce head-on collision risk. The original paintwork was done by a Philadelphia firm owned by David A. Salkind, which also painted the Golden Gate Bridge.