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  2. Moveable bridge - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Robert F. Kennedy Bridge - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. The Rolling Bridge - Wikipedia

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    When extended, it resembles a conventional steel and timber footbridge, and is 12 metres long. To retract the bridge, the hydraulic pistons are activated and the bridge curls up until its two ends join, to form an octagonal shape measuring one half of the waterway's width at that point.

  5. Grand Street Bridge (Connecticut) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. 31 inches wide. 9,800 feet up. That's a bridge - AOL

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    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

  8. List of longest bridges - Wikipedia

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    Some bridges are measured from the beginning of the entrance ramp to the end of the exit ramp. Some are measured from shoreline to shoreline. Yet others use the length of the total construction involved in building the bridge. Since there is no standard, no ranking of a bridge should be assumed because of its position in the list.

  9. Brooklyn Bridge - Wikipedia

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    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]