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The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e., the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers). The length of the main span is the most common method of comparing the sizes of suspension bridges, often correlating with the height of the towers and the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge. [4]
Long Live Egypt Bridge in Rod El Farag, Cairo, inaugurated on 15 May 2019, is the world's widest suspension bridge with 67.3 metres (221 ft) across. [1] Ghana
The double-decked George Washington Bridge, connecting New York City to Bergen County, New Jersey, is the world's busiest suspension bridge by traversing vehicles, carrying 106 million vehicles annually. [3] [4] A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern ...
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Janberg, Nicolas, Suspension bridges, Structurae.de (an extensive database of structures including many suspension bridges) Durkee, Jackson, "World's Longest Bridge Spans", National Steel Bridge Alliance, 24 May 1999 (out of date) The World's Greatest Bridges, Archive.org copy of The Bridge over the Strait of Messina website (out of date and ...
The Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado, USA, was once the world's highest suspension bridge when it was completed in 1929. Dangling at a height of 955 feet above the Arkansas River, this iconic ...
Sky Bridge 721 is a suspension footbridge in the municipality of Dolní Morava, Czech Republic. The bridge is 721 metres long and is at a height of up to 95 metres off the ground. It was opened on 13 May 2022. It was the longest of its kind in the world [1] till the Bridge of National Unity in Hungary was opened. [2]
This list ranks the world's cable-stayed bridges by the length of main span, i.e. the distance between the suspension towers. The length of the main span is the most common way to rank cable-stayed bridges. If one bridge has a longer span than another, it does not mean that the bridge is the longer from shore to shore, or from anchorage to ...