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The longest viaduct in Switzerland is the Yverdon Viaduct [], built in 1984 on the A5 motorway with a total length of 3,155 metres (10,351 ft). [S 30] [12] The Letzigraben Bridge [], near Zürich Hauptbahnhof, is the longest railway viaduct in the country measuring 1,156 metres (3,793 ft).
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In 1835, the chief engineer of the merchant society of the city of Zurich, Alois Negrelli, initiated the construction of the bridge [1] in collaboration with the master-builders Conrad Stadler and Johann Jakob Locher-Oeri, [2] who engineered the sophisticated wooden scaffold. The foundations of the bridge were based on 472 oak piles with a ...
The Kapellbrücke (literally, Chapel Bridge) is a covered wooden footbridge spanning the river Reuss diagonally in the city of Lucerne in central Switzerland.Named after the nearby St. Peter's Chapel, [1] the bridge is unique in containing a number of interior paintings dating back to the 17th century, although many of them were destroyed along with a larger part of the centuries-old bridge in ...
City served / Location Canton ICAO IATA Airport name Passengers (2019) Public airports Ambri / Piotta: Ticino: LSPM Ambri Airport: Basel, Switzerland / Mulhouse, France / Freiburg, Germany: Basel (Haut-Rhin (F), Freiburg (D)) LFSB BSL, MLH, EAP EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg: 9,090,312 Bern / Belp: Bern: LSZB BRN Bern Airport (Bern-Belp ...
The Sunniberg Bridge is a curved multi-span extradosed road bridge with low outward-flaring pylons above the roadway edges, designed by the renowned Swiss engineer Christian Menn and completed 1998. It carries the Klosters bypass road 28 across the Landquart River near the village of Klosters in the canton of Grisons in eastern Switzerland .
The Swiss motorway network has a total length of 1,638 kilometres (1,018 mi) (as of 2000) and has also - with an area of 41,290 km 2 (15,940 sq mi) - one of the highest motorway densities in the world. Zurich Airport is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway, handling 24.9 million passengers in 2013. [2]
It is a joint civilian, commercial and military airport situated 6.5 NM (12.0 km; 7.5 mi) south southeast [1] of central Rome, just outside the Greater Ring Road (Italian: Grande Raccordo Anulare or GRA) the circular motorway around the city.