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The Humber Bridge is a 2.22 km (2,430 yd; 7,300 ft; 1.38 mi) single-span road suspension bridge near Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.When it opened to traffic on 24 June 1981, it was the longest of its type in the world; the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge surpassed it in 1998, and it became the thirteenth-longest by 2024.
The Humber Bridge began construction (on the south-side embankment) in July 1972, and the Ouse Bridge followed only six months later; both were being built at the same time, and the Humber Bridge opened five years after the Ouse Bridge. Costain built the 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) southern approach road from the Humber Bridge to the A1077 at the ...
These crossing have lent their names to some of the locations along the river; Boothferry Bridge now occupies the site of the ferry across the river to the hamlet of Booth. Until 1792, when the bridge at Selby was built, the Ouse Bridge in York was the only crossing of the River Ouse, the other way of getting across the river was by a ferry. [34]
Road bridge, now closed to traffic but open to pedestrians; sometimes referred to as Orion Bridge Cambuslang Footbridge: Cambuslang and Clydesmill Industrial Park: 1977: Footbridge, built to replace adjacent Cambuslang Bridge Clydeford Bridge: Carmyle and Cambuslang: 1976: Road bridge , built to replace nearby Cambuslang Bridge Clyde Arc
Opponents of a bridge being built in a city nature park have called for its funding to be withdrawn over concerns it would "destroy" a section of woodland. ... The bridge is being funded using £8 ...
Bridge from one portal. The bridge is constructed of two 1,200 millimetres (47 in) diameter high-strength steel pipes, bent into twin arches that rise 21.3 metres (70 ft) above grade, and suspend the deck by way of 44 stainless-steel hangers, each 50 millimetres (2.0 in) in diameter.
Some of her earliest memories are of the bridge being built, a feat of modern engineering taking shape right in her family’s backyard. When it opened to cars in 1977, the 1.6-mile (2.6-kilometer ...
The Humber Bridge was the longest single-span suspension bridge in the world from its construction in 1981 until 1998. It is now the twelfth longest. Before the bridge was built, a series of paddle steamers operated from the Corporation Pier railway station [17] at the Victoria Pier in Hull to the railway pier in New Holland.