The coolest bridges (46 photos) Bashny.Net

How to estimate the slope of the bridge? There are a variety of criteria. Length, height, the cost (here the Russian bridges beat all records :)) We offer you the pictures most-bridges from around the world.



longest bridge in the world above the water surface. He called the Qingdao Haiwan Bridge and is located in China.



The bridge 42,500 meters, and it cost the Chinese government $ 8, 72 billion.



If you do not "bother" on where the bridge is located, then the longest bridge shall be deemed to Bang Na Expressway in Thailand.



In reality Bang Na is the aboveground construction of bridge type.



The length of the giant - 54 kilometers.



The longest suspension bridge (determined by the length of the main span) is located in Japan.



It connects the city of Kobe (Honshu Island) and the city of Awaji (island of the same name).



The central span of the bridge length is 1,991 meters, which actually is a record. The total length of the bridge - 3911 meters. Oh yeah, it's called Akashi Kaikyo.



The world's longest bridge-dam located in the United States and passes through Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana.



The bridge consists of two separate roads. The one that is longer - 38 kilometers and 420 meters. The total number of concrete piles of the bridge exceeds 9000!



In the Dutch Rotterdam is another "champion", which is called the Erasmus Bridge.



It consists of two structures and a single bearing suspension bridge.



Here is the world's longest swing bridge Erasmusbrug.



Its length - 802 meters.



The world's longest bicycle-pedestrian bridge is a bridge Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, located on the Mississippi River in Illinois.



Until 1967, this bridge along the legendary Route 66 (Route 66), but later the route was changed.



'31 Bridge essentially empty, while in 1999 it is not officially designated as a bicycle-pedestrian. The total length of the bridge - 1631 m.



The longest wooden bridge in the world is located in Myanmar and called U Bein.



It was built back in 1849 year, and its length is 1, 2 kilometers.







The longest natural bridge in the world is the rainbow bridge, which was formed as a result of leaching of rocks flow of river water.



The bridge is located in the US state of Utah.



Its height (88, 4 m) is greater than the length (83, 8 meters).



Funny longest bridge of plastic is in the Scottish town of Aberfeldy and leads to a local golf club. The total length of the bridge Wade - 113 meters.



The longest bridge-aqueduct (water bridge) is located in the German city of Magdeburg.



It allows you to overlap two channels - Mittelland and connecting channels of the river Elbe and Havel.



The total length of the bridge - 918 meters apart and ships it to pedestrians can walk.



Very beautiful and futuristic Millau Viaduct, located in France.



The bridge was designed to unload the road passing through the town of Millau, who suffers from congestion every summer with tourists. Highway, on which the viaduct connects Paris and the southern city of Beziers.



The maximum height of the support bridge is 341 meters, which is higher than the Eiffel Tower! Overall length - 2,460 meters.



At the time of construction of the viaduct, it was considered the highest. However, the Chinese here are ahead. The newly built bridge Si Du River Bridge over the River Siduhe raised to a height of 472 meters, with a total length of 1222 meters.



Another one of the highest bridges in the world is located in the US state of Colorado, over the Royal Gorge. Previously, Royal Gorge Bridge and operated vehicles, but is now used only by pedestrians.





At the bottom of the gorge winds snake river Arkansas and the distance from the bridge to the water surface at the bottom is 321 meters.



The bridge of 384 meters and a width of 5 meters altogether.





The sources said that if we consider the notion of "the highest bridge" in relation to the height above sea level, the highest bridge should be Bailey bridge in the Indian Himalayas, located in the valley of Ladakh.



If we consider that the valley itself is an average altitude of 5602 meters in the - the conclusion is simple. Here are just a single shot of the bridge no. Therefore, we believe in the word. The widest long-span bridge in the world, located in the Australian city of Sydney and runs through the city's harbor. The width of the Sydney Harbour Bridge is as much as 49 meters, length - 1149 meters. He holds a cycling and walking paths, two railroad tracks and eight-lane highways for cars. The total mass of steel bridge structures is 52 800 tons.



Well, if you consider all the bridges, it appears that the widest bridge is located ... in St. Petersburg!



It passes through the river Moika and is called Blue Bridge. Its width is essentially equal to the width of St. Isaac's Square, which he seems to be rooted. The width of the bridge is almost three times greater than its length! Blue Bridge width is 97, 3 meters! For those who can not see prompt: In the second photo, he begins immediately behind the monument



Bridge with the highest real capacity is the Howrah Bridge in the Indian city of Calcutta on the River Hooghly, which flows into the Ganges.



Daily rate of the bridge - 4 million pedestrians and about 150 000 units of transport.



Zavikon Island Bridge (Zavikon Island Bridge) is officially considered to be the shortest in the world. Its length is only ten meters.



Bridge is an international as well as connects the two islands, one of which belongs to Canada, and the second - the United States. Located in the region called "Thousand Islands».