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The definition of cable-stayed bridge deck length used here is: A continuous part of the bridge deck that is supported only by stay-cables and pylons, or are free spans. This means that columns supporting the side span as for example found in Pont de Normandie , excludes most of the side span decks from the cable-stayed deck length.
The longest deck span from 1849 until 1866, and the oldest vehicular suspension bridge in use in the United States until 2019. Queenston-Lewiston Bridge US and Canada: 317 m (1,040 ft) 1851–1866: The longest cable span from 1851 until it was destroyed by wind in 1864. However, the road deck span was only 258 meters long.
With a total length of 2,460 metres (8,070 ft) and seven towers, it also has the longest cable-stayed suspended deck in the world. Most SNP (Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising) – the world's longest cable-stayed bridge to have one pylon and one cable-stayed plane (Bratislava, Slovakia, 1967–1972)
Its five-span four-pylon cable-stayed portion of length 2,252 m (7,388 ft) is the world's third longest cable-stayed deck; only the decks of the Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge in Shaoxing, China and the Millau Viaduct in southern France are longer at 2,680 m (8,790 ft) and 2,460 m (8,071 ft), respectively.
The Russky Bridge (Russian: Русский мост, lit. 'Russian Bridge') is a cable-stayed bridge in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.The bridge connects the Russky Island and the Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula sections of the city across the Eastern Bosphorus strait, and with a central span of 1,104 metres (3,622 feet), it is the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world.
The Sutong Yangtze River Bridge was designed by Dr. Robin Sham, CBE, FICE, a Hong Kong-born and British-based structural engineer who specializes in bridges. [1] With a span of 1,088 metres (3,570 ft), it was the cable-stayed bridge with the longest main span in the world from 2008 to 2012.
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