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The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e., the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers). The length of the main span is the most common method of comparing the sizes of suspension bridges, often correlating with the height of the towers and the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge. [4]
Henderson, West Virginia, United States: 33 Ravenswood Bridge: 274 (900) 1981 Ravenswood, West Virginia to Meigs County, Ohio, United States: 34 Carpenter Bridge: 274 (900) 1987 St. Marys, West Virginia, United States: 35 Carl Perkins Bridge: 274 (900) 1987 Portsmouth, Ohio, United States: 36 Blue Water Bridge: 265 (871) 1938
Retrieved 6 May 2018. ^ The total length of all raised spans is 1.9 miles (3.1 km), but the shipping channel span is 750 feet (229 m) Bay Area Toll Authority – Bridge Facts – San Mateo-Hayward Bridge Archived 2008-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. ^ "Shanghai-Nantong Yangtze River Bridge – Doka".
Notes. ^ The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge held the record of the longest bridge span in the world from 1964 to 1981.[1] ^ At the time of its opening in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge was the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world,[4] titles it held until 1964 and 1998 respectively.
The bridge opened on November 1, 1957, [10] connecting two peninsulas linked for decades by ferries. At the time, the bridge was formally dedicated as the "world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages", allowing a superlative comparison to the Golden Gate Bridge, which has a longer center span between towers, and the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, which has an anchorage in the middle.
It was also the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its opening, with a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m) and a deck 127 ft (38.7 m) above mean high water. The span was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge or the East River Bridge but was officially renamed the Brooklyn Bridge in 1915.
This list of the longest arch bridge spans ranks the world's arch bridges by the length of their main span. The length of the main span is the most common way to rank bridges as it usually correlates with the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge. [ 1 ]
They are practical for spans up to around 1 kilometre (0.6 mi). The Russky Bridge over the Eastern Bosphorus in Vladivostok, Russia, with its 1,104 metres (3,622 ft) span, has the longest span of any cable-stayed bridge, displacing the former record holder, the Sutong Bridge over the Yangtze River in the People's Republic of China 1,088 metres ...