List of longest suspension bridge spans
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 most common method of comparing the sizes of suspension bridges, the length of main span often correlates with the height of the towers and the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge.
Suspension bridges have the longest spans of any type of bridge. Cable-stayed bridges, the next longest design, are practical for spans up to around one kilometer. Thus, the 15 longest bridges on this list all are suspended-deck suspension bridges and currently are the 15 longest of all types of vehicular bridge.
Completed suspension bridges
This list includes only completed suspension bridges that carry automobiles or trains. It does not include cable-stayed bridges, footbridges or pipeline bridges.
- Note: Click on each bridge's rank to go to the bridge's official Web site. Ranks with a red asterisk (*) do not have official Web sites, nor do they have English-language versions and are linked instead to a reference entry.
Bridges under construction
Most of the large suspension bridges built in recent years have been in the People's Republic of China. As the following list shows, most of the bridges under construction are also in China.
Name | Location | Main span |
Scheduled opening date |
Notes |
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Nanjing Fourth Yangtze Bridge | China | Template:M to ft | 2010 | [120] |
Taizhou Bridge | near Taizhou, China | Template:M to ft | 2010 | Two Template:M to ft spans connecting three towers.[121] |
Ma'anshan Bridge | China | Template:M to ft | 2010 | Two Template:M to ft main spans.[122] |
Aizhai Bridge | China | Template:M to ft | 2012 | [123] |
Eastern section of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge | San Francisco – Oakland, California, USA | Template:M to ft | 2013 | This will be the largest self-anchored suspension bridge ever constructed. With one tower, it will have two asymmetric spans of 180 and 385 meters. |
Hardanger Bridge | Hardangerfjorden, Norway | 1,310 m (4,300 ft) | 2013 | Construction start was in January 2009, and is estimated to be completed in 2013.[124] |
Planned and proposed bridges
Name | Location | Main span |
Status | Notes |
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Sunda Strait Bridge | Java to Sumatra, Indonesia | about 3,000 m (9,800 ft) | Preliminary work | This project has been approved by the Indonesian government. If completed, it will not only be the world's longest suspension bridge (26 km), but will also have a main span of about 3,000 m (9,800 ft)—roughly fifty percent longer than the current record.[125] |
Unnamed | Qiongzhou Strait, China | about 3,000 m (9,800 ft) | Preliminary work | A suspension bridge is being considered to cross the 22.5 kilometer wide Qiongzhou Strait.[126] One design consists of four bridges strung together with four main spans of 2,000 meters, two main-spans of 1,800 meters, five anchorages and 10 towers.[127] If completed this bridge will assume six of the top seven longest spans. |
Unnamed | Aizhai Gorge in Hunan province, China | 1,176 m (3,858 ft) | Planned | [128] |
İzmit Bay Bridge | Marmara Sea, Turkey | 1,688 m (5,538 ft) | Planned | Bidding is expected to start in June 2009 [129]. The original design called for a long span, but recent images depict several shorter spans. [130] |
Chacao Channel bridge | Chiloé to mainland Chile | 1,100 m (3,600 ft) | On hold | This unusual design has two main spans of 1,055 meters and 1,100 meters without an anchorage between them. Construction was supposed to begin in 2007 and completed in 2012, but because of cost overruns, the project is now on hold. |
Strait of Messina Bridge | Sicily to mainland Italy | 3,300 m (10,800 ft) | Planned | The project was canceled on 11 October 2006 by the Romano Prodi-led government amid controversy concerning the bridge's cost and feared Mafia influence.[131] The new government from 2008 led by Silvio Berlusconi wants to pick up the project again. Preliminary works will begin in December 2009. The main construction is expected to begin before the end of 2010 and completed in 2016. |
Gibraltar Bridge | Spain to Morocco | ? | Proposed | Some designs have suspension spans of several kilometers. The suspension cables of a very long bridge might be suspended from the ends of cable-stayed struts extending diagonally from huge pylons. However, as of 2008, the feasibility of a tunnel is being considered instead. |
Hålogaland Bridge | Narvik, Norway | 1,345 m (4,413 ft) | Plans under consideration | The bridge will reduce the distance between Narvik and Bjerkvik by 17 km. The government of Norway has declared that it wants to build it, with construction to start possibly in 2011, and an opening date in 2015.[132] See no:Hålogalandsbrua. |
History of longest suspension spans
Bridge | Location | length m (ft) |
Year became longest span |
Notes |
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Maya Bridge at Yaxchilan | Mexico | 62 m (203 ft) | 600 | Hemp-rope simple suspension footbridge. No longer standing. |
Luding Bridge | China | 103 m (338 ft) | 1705 | Chain simple suspension footbridge. |
Footbridge at Falls of Schuylkill | USA | 124 m (407 ft) | 1816 | The first wire bridge ever built.[133] It had a suspended 18-inch (0.45 m) walkway, and charged a 1-penny toll.[134] No longer standing. |
Union Bridge | UK | 137 m (449 ft) | 1820 | The oldest in the world still in use today. |
Menai Suspension Bridge | UK | 176 m (577 ft) | 1826 | |
Zähringen Bridge | Switzerland | 271 m (889 ft) | 1834 | The bridge was removed in the 1920s. |
Wheeling Suspension Bridge | USA | 308 m (1,010 ft) | 1849 | The longest deck span from 1849 until 1866. |
Lewiston-Queenston Bridge | USA and Canada | 317 m (1,040 ft) | 1851 | The longest cable span from 1851 until it was destroyed by wind in 1864. However, the road deck span was only 258 m. |
John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge | USA | 322 m (1,056 ft) | 1866 | |
Niagara Clifton Bridge | USA and Canada | 384 m (1,260 ft) | 1869 | Replaced in 1899. |
Brooklyn Bridge | USA | 486 m (1,594 ft) | 1883 | |
Williamsburg Bridge | USA | 488 m (1,601 ft) | 1903 | It was the longest suspension span but not the longest span of all bridges. The Forth Railway Bridge with two spans of 521 m was longer. |
Bear Mountain Bridge | USA | 497 m (1,631 ft) | 1924 | It was the longest suspension span but not the longest span of all bridges. The Quebec Bridge with a span of 549 m was longer. The first suspension bridge to have a concrete deck. The construction methods pioneered in building it would make possible several much larger projects to follow. |
Benjamin Franklin Bridge | USA | 533 m (1,749 ft) | 1926 | It was the longest suspension span but not the longest span of all bridges. |
Ambassador Bridge | USA and Canada | 564 m (1,850 ft) | 1929 | Since this bridge was built, the record for longest bridge span has only been held by suspension bridges. |
George Washington Bridge | USA | 1,067 m (3,501 ft) | 1931 | The first span longer than a kilometer. |
Golden Gate Bridge | USA | 1,280 m (4,200 ft) | 1937 | |
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge | USA | 1,298 m (4,259 ft) | 1964 | |
Humber Bridge | UK | 1,410 m (4,630 ft) | 1981 | |
Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge | Japan | 1,991 m (6,532 ft) | 1998 | The longest span since 1998. |
Other record holding suspension bridges
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge (USA) 853 m—1950 & 2007. The pair of suspension bridges with the longest spans in the world.
- Royal Gorge Bridge (USA) 1929 The highest (384 m) suspension bridge in the world.
- Tsing Ma Bridge (Hong Kong) 1,377 m—1997. The longest span carrying road and rail traffic.
- George Washington Bridge (USA). Suspension bridge with the most lanes of traffic—fourteen.
See also
- List of spans (list of remarkable permanent wire spans)
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- ^ "On one of the occasions of the breaking down of the Falls [Chain] bridge, White & Hazard erected a curious temporary bridge across the river by suspending wires from the top windows of their mill to large trees on the western side, which wires hung in curve, and from which were suspended other wires supporting a floor of boards eighteen inches wide. The length of the floor of this bridge was four hundred feet, without intermediate support." J. Thomas Scharf & Thompson Westcott, History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), p. 584n.
- ^ Virola, Juhani. "World's Longest Bridge Spans". Laboratory of Bridge Engineering (LBE), Helsinki University of Technology. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
- ^ Denenberg, David. "1820 Union Bridge (each bridge is linked to the span that eclipsed it in length)". Bridgemeister.com. Retrieved 2009-03-22.
- Note: Some of the information posted on the following sites may differ from that above. As of February 21 2006, the sites were out of date or inaccurate as noted in parenthesis
- Denenberg, David, Bridgemeister.com (an extensive inventory of roughly 2,000 suspension bridges)
- 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, May 24, 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 other errors)
- List of longest spans, Pub Quiz Help (includes bridges that have not yet been completed)
- Steel bridges in the world, and other bridge statistics, The Swedish Institute of Steel Construction, March, 2003 (out of date)
- Virola, Eur Ing Juhani, Two Millennia - Two Long-Span Suspension Bridges, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, ATSE Focus No 124, November/December 2002 (revised information up to date as of 2005)
- Virola, Eur Ing Juhani, World's Longest Bridge Spans Laboratory of Bridge Engineering (LBE), Helsinki University of Technology (includes bridges that have not yet been completed)
External links
- Progress of Center Span on Long-Span Bridges at the Honshū--Shikoku Bridge Expressway Co.