How do they match: Bridge and Lock Tenders

  • Maintain and guard stations in bridges to check waterways for boat traffic.
  • Move levers to activate traffic signals, navigation lights, and alarms.
  • Raise drawbridges and observe passage of water traffic or lower drawbridges and raise automobile gates.
  • Stop automobile and pedestrian traffic on bridges, and lower automobile gates prior to moving bridges.

  • Control equipment that regulates vehicle traffic.
  • Direct vehicle traffic.
  • Monitor traffic signals.