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The bridge may be stiffened by the addition of cables that do not bear the primary structural or live loads and so may be relatively light. These also add stability in wind. An example is the 220-meter-long (720 ft) bridge across the river Drac at Lac de Monteynard-Avignonet: this bridge has stabilizing cables below and to the side of the deck.
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]
The center span between the two suspension towers is 1,380 feet (421 m) long, [16] [17] and the side spans between the suspension towers and the anchorages are each 700 feet (213 m) long. [16] The total length of the bridge is 2,780 feet (847 m), and the deck is 98 feet (30 m) wide. [ 16 ]
Its movable span is 85 ft (26 m) wide, 218 ft (66 m) long, weighs 660 short tons (589 long tons; 599 t), and employs two 230 short tons (205 long tons; 209 t) concrete-filled counterweights. Until 1928, the bridge carried streetcars of the Groton and Stonington Street Railway .
Kingston–Port Ewen Suspension Bridge: Maintained by: New York State Department of Transportation: ID number: 1007350: Characteristics; Design: Wire cable Suspension bridge: Total length: 2 side spans of 176.25 feet (54 m) each, anchorages, total length 1,145 ft (349 m) Width: 2 lanes plus walkway, 37 feet (11 m) Longest span: 705 feet (215 m ...
A moveable bridge, or movable bridge, is a bridge that moves to allow passage for boats [1] or barges. [2] In American English, the term is synonymous with drawbridge , and the latter is the common term, but drawbridge can be limited to the narrower, historical definition used in some other forms of English, in which drawbridge refers to only a ...
Steel bridges in the world, and other bridge statistics, The Swedish Institute of Steel Construction, March 2003 (out of date) Virola, Eur Ing Juhani, Two Millennia - Two Long-Span Suspension Bridges, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, ATSE Focus No 124, November/December 2002 (revised information up to date as of 2005)
Note: There is no standard way to measure the total length of a bridge. 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.