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A more elegant aesthetic appearance than conventional beam bridges. [43] The first major extradosed bridge built in India is the Second Vivekananda Bridge between Howrah and Kolkata. It has 8 pylons and a suspended length of 880 m (2,890 ft), which was among the longest in its category at the time.
The Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, officially named as Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sewri–Nhava Sheva Atal Setu and colloquially known as Atal Setu, is a 21.8 km (13.5 mi) 6-lane grade separated expressway [9] bridge, which connects Mumbai with Navi Mumbai, its satellite city. It is the longest sea bridge in India, and the world's 12th longest sea bridge.
Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge: Mahanadi River: 2.1 2008- Rail Odisha: Cuttack [26] 32 Pamban Bridge: Palk Strait: 2.07 1913- Rail Tamil Nadu: Mandapam-Rameswaram [27] 33 Sharavati Bridge: Sharavathi River: 2.06 1994 Rail Karnataka: Honnavar-Kasarkoda [10] 34 Baluaha Ghat Bridge Kosi River: 2.05 2015- Road Bihar: Baluaha Ghat-Gandaul [28] 35 Arwal ...
The name Adam's Bridge appeared probably around the time of Al-Biruni (c. 1030). [2] This appears to have been premised on the Islamic belief that Adam's Peak — where the biblical Adam fell to earth — is located in Sri Lanka, and that Adam crossed over to peninsular India via the bridge after his expulsion from the Garden of Eden. [3]
The Bogibeel Bridge is a combined road and rail bridge over the Brahmaputra River in the northeastern Indian state of Assam between Dhemaji district and Dibrugarh district, [1] which was started in the year 2002 and took a total of 200 months(16 years and 8 months) to complete, Bogibeel river bridge is the longest rail-cum-road bridge in India, measuring 4.94 kilometres over the Brahmaputra ...
An under-construction bridge collapsed into the river Ganga in India on Sunday. The Aguwani Sultanganj Ganga bridge, which was meant to be complete by 2019, collapsed in the eastern state of Bihar ...
The Anji Khad bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla-Rail-Link (USBRL) in the Jammu Division of Jammu and Kashmir, India.It is widely regarded as an engineering marvel because of its height, the steepness of the sides of the gorge it spans, and its striking design, consisting of an asymmetrical arrangement of cables anchored to a single massive pylon.
The approaches bridge on Okha and Beyt Dwarka sides have length of 770 metres (2,526 ft) and 650 metres (2,133 ft) respectively. Two A-shaped curved pylons supporting the bridge are 129.985 metres (426 ft) tall and radius of 300 metres (984 ft) leaning in backspan up to 22 metres (72 ft) from center of pylon.