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The Braga Bridge is a continuous truss bridge. It was the fourth longest span of this type when it was completed in 1966. This list of continuous bridge spans ranks the world's continuous truss bridges in two listings: The first is ranked by the length of main span (the longest length of unsupported roadway) and the second by the total length of continuous truss spans.
The Astoria–Megler Bridge is a steel cantilever through-truss bridge in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States that spans the lower Columbia River. It carries a section of U.S. Route 101 from Astoria, Oregon, to Point Ellice near Megler, Washington. Opened in 1966, it is the longest continuous truss bridge in North America.
The Astoria–Megler Bridge is North America's longest continuous truss bridge. Smaller continuous truss bridge over the Illinois River at Lacon, Illinois The Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge The Sciotoville Bridge (1916), the first continuous truss bridge in the United States. A continuous truss bridge is a truss bridge that extends without hinges ...
List of toll bridges § United States; Category:Lists of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record; Category:Lists of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places; Category:Lists of river crossings in the United States; Other topics. Transport in the United States; Rail transportation in the United States
The Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge, also known as the Braga Bridge, or simply, The Braga, is a through truss bridge that carries Interstate 195 over the Taunton River between the town of Somerset and the city of Fall River, near the mouth of the Quequechan River at the confluence with Mount Hope Bay.
It carries U.S. Route 1 Alternate (US 1 Alt.) and State Road 228 (SR 228). It is named after Isaiah Hart, the founder of Jacksonville and is often referred to as the Hart Bridge. It was designed by Sverdrup & Parcel. [1] The Hart Bridge is one of the longest truss bridges in the world, and has the world's third longest main span of any truss ...
The AEC hired the Chicago firm of Ralph Modjeski and Angier to design the bridge, and the American Bridge Company to fabricate and erect it. When completed, this 700-foot-long (210 m) Pennsylvania through-truss bridge was the longest truss span in the United States and its territories. This bridge still ranks as the longest span of any kind in ...
Jersey City, Kearny, and Newark, New Jersey, United States: Maintained by: NJDOT: ID number: 0901150 (Hudson County) [1] 0704150 (Essex County) [2] Characteristics; Design: Steel deck truss cantilever bridge over Meadowlands Pratt truss for river crossings: Total length: 3.502 mi (5.636 km) (18,492 feet (5,636 m)) Width: 56 ft (17 m) Longest ...