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The movable span is 310 feet (94 m) long [23] [24] and 92 feet (28 m) wide. [23] The side spans between the movable span and the approach viaducts are each 195 feet (59 m) long. The total length of the bridge is 700 feet (213 m). [24] The towers are 210 feet (64 m) above mean high water.
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]
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.
A bascule bridge (also referred to as a drawbridge or a lifting bridge) is a moveable bridge with a counterweight that continuously balances a span, or leaf, throughout its upward swing to provide clearance for boat traffic. It may be single- or double-leafed.
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.
The bridge's 58 anchors all feature 3-inch-thick (7.6 cm), 1,000-foot-long (300 m) steel cables and are divided into three types: 45 587-short-ton (533 t) fluke anchors used in softer soils deep in the lakebed; eight 107-short-ton (97 t) gravity anchors used in solid soils nearer to the shore; and five 10-foot-diameter (3.0 m), 79-to-92-foot ...
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 ...
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]