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The Eshima Ohashi Bridge (Japanese: 江島大橋, Hepburn: Eshima Ōhashi) is a rigid-frame bridge in Japan that connects Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, and Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, over Nakaumi lake. It was built from 1997 to 2004, and it is the largest rigid-frame bridge in Japan and the third largest in the world. [1]
The Sidu River Bridge in China is one of the world's highest bridges, soaring at a height of about 1,627 feet above the Sidu River Gorge. Completed in 2009, it was once the world's highest bridge ...
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, under construction in December 1995. The original plan called for a mixed railway-road bridge, but when construction on the bridge began in April 1988, it was restricted to road only, with six lanes. Actual construction did not begin until May 1988 and involved more than 100 contractors. [8]
The Ōnaruto Bridge (大鳴門橋, Ōnaruto-kyō, lit. "Great Naruto Bridge") is a suspension bridge that carries 4 lanes of the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway connecting Minamiawaji, Hyogo on Awaji Island with Naruto, Tokushima on Ōge Island, Japan. Completed in 1985, it has a main span of 876 metres (2,874 ft).
1807 Eidai bridge collapse by a stampede Stampede 20 Sep 1807: Edo, (Present day of Tokyo) In Fukagawa-Tomioka Hachiman shrine, the bridge, dating from 1795, collapsed under the weight of festival-goers, one of the worst panic accidents in Japan. According to an unofficial source report, many more persons went missing. 426: 1858 Hietsu earthquake
The Kurushima Kaikyō Bridge consists of three successive suspension bridges with six towers and four anchorages. There is a shared anchorage that joins each suspension bridge to the next. Its construction is similar to the western portion of San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge which is two successive suspension bridges with four towers and one ...
Tanize Suspension Bridge (Japanese: 谷瀬の吊り橋, Hepburn: tanize no tsuribashi), alternatively known as the Tanise Suspension Bridge, is a bridge in Totsukawa, Nara. It is one of Japan's oldest and longest extant wire suspension bridges. [1] The bridge, locally known as 谷瀬大橋 (Tanize-ōhashi, lit.
The 2,779 bridges in Nebraska that are listed as structurally deficient represent just over 18% of its total number of bridges, and 1,058 bridges are considered to be functionally obsolete.