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This is a list of the world's longest bridges that are more than 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) in length sorted by their full length above land and water. The main span is the longest span without any ground support.
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, commonly referred to as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland , it carries about 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks.
The bridge shuts down. That could mean hours-long traffic jams, with cars backed up for miles in both directions. Seven Mile Bridge Run. One of the biggest Keys events of the year happens on the ...
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 ...
Replacing the Seven Mile Bridge isn’t the only major Florida Keys road project on Monroe County’s and FDOT’s agenda, Livengood said. There are also plans to replace the Long Key Bridge, the ...
The Mile-Long Bridge is the colloquial name for a 4,608-foot-long (1,404.5 m) bridge in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois.The bridge carries Interstate 294 (I-294) over the Des Plaines River, the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal, two major railroad lines, and an intermodal facility.
Near the center, the bridge rises in an arc to provide 65-foot (20 m)-high clearance for boat passage. The remainder of the bridge is considerably closer to the water surface. The new bridge does not cross Pigeon Key. The total length of the new bridge is actually 35,862 ft (10,931 m) or 6.79 miles (10.93 km), and is shorter than the original.
The bridge is 14 miles (23 km) from the mouth of the river at the Pacific Ocean. The bridge is four miles (6.5 km) in length, [ 3 ] and was the final segment of U.S. Route 101 to be completed between Olympia, Washington , and Los Angeles , California .