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Other lists of U.S. bridges. By height; By state; By city Boston; New York City; Pittsburgh; Portland, Maine; Portland, Oregon; Seattle; Cable-stayed bridges; Covered bridges; List of toll bridges § United States; Category:Lists of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record; Category:Lists of bridges on the National ...
The clearance below required under bridges for the largest ships—container ships, ocean liners and cruise ships—is around 220 feet (67 m) so there are often bridges with approximately that height located in coastal cities with bays or inlets, such as New York City's Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. [1]
Manchac Swamp bridge, carries Interstate 55 over the Manchac Swamp; second-longest bridge by total length in the world: 36.710 km (22.811 mi) Natchez-Vidalia Bridge, Vidalia and Natchez, Mississippi; Norfolk Southern Lake Pontchartrain Bridge – longest railroad bridge in the US: 9.3 km (5.8 mi) Old Vicksburg Bridge, Delta and Vicksburg ...
Opened in 1957, the 26,372-foot-long (4.995 mi; 8.038 km) [1] bridge is the world's 27th-longest main span and is the longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the Western Hemisphere. [5] The Mackinac Bridge is part of Interstate 75 (I-75) and carries the Lake Michigan and Huron components of the Great Lakes Circle Tour across the straits ...
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Comparison of notable bridges: Image title: Comparison of elevations of some notable bridges to scale, centred on (one of) their largest spans with an Airbus A380 and RMS Titanic, by CMG Lee. Hover over a label or profile to highlight it, and click for its Wikipedia article.
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The bridge carried 8.5 million people in 1884, its first full year of operation; this number doubled to 17 million in 1885 and again to 34 million in 1889. [47] Many of these people were cable car passengers. [195] Additionally, about 4.5 million pedestrians a year were crossing the bridge for free by 1892. [196]