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Wadi Abdoun Bridge or the Kamal Al-Shair Bridge is a bridge in Amman, Jordan.The only cable-stayed bridge in the country, it crosses the Wadi Abdoun.The building of the bridge commenced on 14 December 2002, and it was opened on 14 December 2006 and was built by Larsen & Toubro Limited, an Indian multinational company.
George Washington Bridge, Throgs Neck Bridge, Bronx–Whitestone Bridge, Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and Bayonne Bridge Othmar Hermann Ammann (March 26, 1879 – September 22, 1965) was a Swiss-American civil engineer whose bridge designs include the George Washington Bridge , Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge , and Bayonne Bridge .
The Allenby Bridge (Hebrew: גשר אלנבי, romanized: Gesher Allenby), known officially in Jordan as the King Hussein Bridge (Arabic: جسر الملك حسين, romanized: Jisr al-Malek Hussein), is a bridge that crosses the Jordan River near the city of Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the town of Al-Karameh in Jordan.
Abdoun Bridge: جسر عبدون: 132 m (433 ft) (x2) 417 m (1,368 ft) Cable-stayed Concrete box girder deck, 3 concrete pylons 63+132+132+63+27: Amman's Beltway
The Abdoun Bridge spanning Wadi Abdoun. Wadi Abdoun (Arabic: وادي عبدون) is a wadi (Arabic meaning valley or stream bed) in Amman, Jordan. The wadi separates the two neighbourhoods of Jabal Amman and Abdoun. The Abdoun Bridge spans the valley, connecting the 4th Circle and Abdoun Circle on either side.
The steel-decked Strömsund Bridge designed by Franz Dischinger (1955) is, therefore, more often cited as the first modern cable-stayed bridge. Abdoun Bridge, Amman, Jordan, example of an extradosed bridge. Other key pioneers included Fabrizio de Miranda, Riccardo Morandi, and Fritz Leonhardt.
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Abdoun Bridge, considered one of Amman's landmarks. Successive waves of refugees to the city has led to the rapid construction of new neighborhoods, but Amman's capacity for new or widened roads remains limited despite the influx.