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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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