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A bridge can be categorized by what it is designed to carry, such as trains, pedestrian or road traffic (road bridge), a pipeline (Pipe bridge) or waterway for water transport or barge traffic. An aqueduct is a bridge that carries water, resembling a viaduct, which is a bridge that connects points of equal height.
Submersible bridge – also called a ducking bridge, the bridge deck is lowered into the water; Tilt bridge – the bridge deck, which is curved and pivoted at each end, is lifted at an angle; Swing bridge – the bridge deck rotates around a fixed point, usually at the centre, but may resemble a gate in its operation ; road or rail
In 1985, a bridge known as the Simeon Willis Memorial Bridge, was opened to traffic. The second span is named for Kentucky Governor Simeon S. Willis . The bridge was originally planned to cross at 45th St. and connect to a proposed Ashland bypass, but was instead built one block from the existing bridge and carries only northbound traffic while ...
Cable-stayed bridge and Suspension bridge: 1,408 m (4,619 ft) Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, [2] Istanbul: Cantilever bridge: 549 m (Quebec bridge) 1042.6 m (Forth Bridge) Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge: Clapper bridge: Covered bridge: Girder bridge: Continuous span girder bridge Integral bridge: Extradosed bridge: 1,920 m Arrah–Chhapra ...
The Brig o' Balgownie is a 13th-century bridge spanning the River Don in Old Aberdeen, Scotland. Construction of the bridge was begun in the late 13th century by Richard Cementarius, although its completion was not until 1320 at the time of the Scottish War of Independence. After falling into disrepair in the mid 16th century it was extensively ...
A root bridge being grown using a wood and bamboo scaffold. Rangthylliang, East Khasi Hills (2016) Root bridges are also commonly formed by training young rubber fig roots over scaffolds made from wood or bamboo, materials which are abundant in Northeast India. In these instances, the roots are wrapped around the outside of the perishable material.
Albert Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames connecting Chelsea in Central London on the north bank to Battersea on the south. Designed and built by Rowland Mason Ordish in 1873 as an Ordish–Lefeuvre system modified cable-stayed bridge, it proved to be structurally unsound, so between 1884 and 1887 Sir Joseph Bazalgette incorporated some of the design elements of a suspension bridge.
A wooden bridge was built at sometime between the 8th and 11th centuries at the same river ford as the present day Krämerbrücke. [1] The bridge was first mentioned in 1117 after its destruction by one of many fires. [5] The first written evidence of a "pons rerum venalium", i.e. "a market bridge", on the site dates back to 1156. [11]