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Reported by Guinness World Records as the longest bridge over water ... Rudong Yangkou Yellow Sea Bridge [33] 12,600 ... Second Severn Crossing: 5,128 16,824:
In July 2011 the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in China was named by Guinness World Records as the 'longest bridge over water'. [4] At that time there was some controversy in the United States as supporters of the former holder of the record, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, disagreed with Guinness World Records not calling the causeway the longest. [14]
From its completion in 1974 until 1985 it was the world's second-longest bridge, second only to the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. It is 13.29 kilometres (8.26 mi) long – 8.836 kilometres (5.490 mi) over water and the bridge's 300-metre (980 ft) central span is 72 metres (236 ft) high in order to allow the passage of hundreds of ships entering ...
Sortable list of the longest cable-stayed bridge decks, including multiple spans, ranked by length of bridge deck Rank Cable-stayed deck length Name Span arrangement (metres) 1: 2,540 m (8,330 ft) Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge [95] 200 428 428 428 428 428 200 2: 2,460 m (8,070 ft) Millau Viaduct [96] 204 342 342 342 342 342 342 204 3: 2,252 m ...
Dallas’ Margaret Hunt Hill bridge places No. 83 on America’s Top 100 Most Iconic Bridges. The Bridge located in West Dallas connects Woodall Rodgers Freeway to Singleton Boulevard — a span ...
The bridge proposed in the report uses a four-span suspension bridge with a central tower height of 376 m, central span length of 3,000 m, and bridge length of about 8,400 m as the main bridge, connecting the Toyo Strait with two bridges, the extension would be about 12.7 km. [55] The total project cost is currently estimated to be about 1.3 ...
The Progreso–Nuevo Progreso International Bridge (Spanish: Puente Internacional Nuevo Progreso–Progreso), officially the Weslaco–Progreso International Bridge and also known as the B&P Bridge, [1] is an international bridge over the Rio Grande on the U.S.–Mexico border, connecting the cities of Progreso, Texas and Nuevo Progreso, Río Bravo, Tamaulipas.
The bridge sustains the continuation of Texas Park Road 100 and is the only road connecting South Padre Island to mainland Texas. Stretching 2.37 miles (3.81 km) across the Laguna Madre, the causeway is the second-longest bridge in Texas, after the Fred Hartman Bridge over the Houston Ship Channel. [2] It is named after Queen Isabella of Castile.