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Madison Street Bridge, a bascule bridge over the Chicago River in Chicago, IL The Rode Brug (Red Bridge) across the Vecht river in Utrecht, Netherlands The Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge in New York City. A moveable bridge, or movable bridge, is a bridge that moves to allow passage for boats [1] or barges. [2]
The center span between the two suspension towers is 1,380 feet (421 m) long, [16] [17] and the side spans between the suspension towers and the anchorages are each 700 feet (213 m) long. [16] The total length of the bridge is 2,780 feet (847 m), and the deck is 98 feet (30 m) wide. [16]
The moving bridge had two bascule leaves, each 48 feet (15 m) long that were connected by a 69 feet (21 m) long deck-girder approach, for a total overall length of 372 feet (113 m). [6] The girders were 40 feet (12 m) in width; which were wider than the 37.5 feet (11.4 m) bascules. [6]
In 2011, smoot was one of the 10,000 new words added to the fifth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] A 2016 April Fools' Day article by the MIT Alumni Association announced that MIT would recalibrate the smoot to 65.7500 inches (1.67005 m) and the ear to 2.48031 inches (62.999874 mm), and the bridge would thus be 372 ...
The tunnel is 76 feet (23 m) wide, 58 feet (18 m) high, and 540 feet (160 m) long. [15] It is the largest diameter transportation bore tunnel in the world. [ 22 ] The large amount of material that was excavated in boring the tunnel was used for a portion of the landfill over the shoals lying adjacent to Yerba Buena Island to its north, a ...
It's called Peak Walk at the Glacier 3,000 Resort in the Swiss Alps, and it's the world's first suspension bridge to ever 31 inches wide. 9,800 feet up. That's a bridge
Including approaches, the Brooklyn Bridge is a total of 6,016 feet (1,834 m) long [2] [3] [4] when measured between the curbs at Park Row in Manhattan and Sands Street in Brooklyn. [4] A separate measurement of 5,989 feet (1,825 m) is sometimes given; this is the distance from the curb at Centre Street in Manhattan. [5] [6] [7]
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