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The clearance below required under bridges for the largest ships—container ships, ocean liners and cruise ships—is around 220 feet (67 m) so there are often bridges with approximately that height located in coastal cities with bays or inlets, such as New York City's Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. [1]
This list of tallest bridges includes bridges with a structural height of at least 200 metres (660 ft). The structural height of a bridge is the maximum vertical distance from the uppermost part of a bridge, such as the top of a bridge tower, to the lowermost exposed part of the bridge, where its piers, towers, or mast pylons emerge from the surface of the ground or water.
This is a list of the major current and former bridges in the United States. ... Road bridge New York City Subway ... Texas Texas [82] [83] 37: Dames Point Bridge ...
The tallest Millau Viaduct tower is situated near the valley floor, which gives the viaduct a structural height of 343 m (1,125 ft), and a deck height of 270 m (890 ft) above the valley floor. The Millau Viaduct is (as of 8 February 2020) the tallest bridge, but only the thirtieth highest bridge in the world.
Construction on the Rainbow bridge, a cantilever truss bridge, began in 1936.It was contracted under the guidance of the Texas State Highway Department.Due to concerns by the upstream city of Beaumont about the bridge posing a threat to ship navigation, the Rainbow Bridge was built with a 680-foot (210 m) main span.
The Fred Hartman Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge [2] in the U.S. state of Texas spanning the Houston Ship Channel. The bridge carries 2.6 miles (4.2 km) of State Highway 146 (SH 146), between the cities of Baytown and La Porte [3] (east of Houston). The bridge is also expected to carry SH 99 (Grand Parkway) when it is completed around Houston. [4]
The High Five Interchange, north of downtown in Dallas, Texas, is a massive five-level freeway interchange.It is the junction of two major highways carrying heavy rush-hour traffic, the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway and the Central Expressway (), and is the first five-level stack interchange to be built in the city.
also: Buildings and structures: by country: United States: by state: Texas: Bridges Bridges in the U.S. state of Texas . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bridges in Texas .