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United States
Bridge Name:
1.
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge
The Causeway
Length:
23.87 miles (38.42 km)
Longest Bridge in the US,
Longest Bridge in the world: 1969 to 2011
Longest continuous span over water in world
Year Open:
Southbound: 1956, Northbound: 1969
Bridge Type:
Twin low level trestle with mid-span bascule
Prefabricated, prestressed concrete bridge
State:
Louisiana
Crosses:
Lake Pontchatrain
Carries:
4 lanes of Causeway Boulevard
Connects:
New Orleans to Mandeville
Bridge Name:
2. Manchac Swamp Bridge
IH 55 Manchac Swamp Crossing
Length:
22.8 miles (36.7 km)
Longest bridge on the Interstate Highway System.
Second longest bridge in North America
Longest Toll-free road bridge in the world
Year Open:
1979
Bridge Type:
Twin concrete trestle bridge
State:
Louisiana
Crosses:
Manchac Swamp
Carries:
IH 55 and US 51
Connects:
New Orleans to Mandeville, Louisiana
Bridge Name:
3. Atchafalaya Basin Bridge
The Swamp Freeway
Renamed in 1989: Louisiana Airborne Memorial Bridge
Length:
18.2 miles (28,97 km)
Third longest bridge in the US
Second longest in the interstate highway system
Fourteenth longest in the World
Year Open:
1973
Bridge Type:
Twin parallel concrete
State:
Louisiana
Crosses:
Atchafalaya Basin
Carries:
four lanes of IH 10
Connects:
Lafayette to Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Bridge Name:
4. Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge-Tunnel
Length:
17.6 miles (28.3 km)
Year Open:
1964, 1999
Bridge Type:
Twin Bridge-Tunnel:
low trestle bridges, high level trestle, causeways, islands and tunnels
State:
Virginia
Crosses:
Chesapeake Bay
Carries:
four lane on four bridges and two tunnels on US 13
Connects:
Norfolk, Virginia to the Delmarva Peninsula
Bridge Name:
5. Bonnet Carrié Spillway Bridge
Length:
11.2 miles (18.02 km)
Year Open:
1972
Bridge Type:
Twin concrete trestle bridge
State:
Louisiana
Crosses:
Bonnet Carré Spillway, Lake Ponchartrain, LaBranche Wetlands
Carries:
four lanes of IH 10
Connects:
Baton Rouge to New Orleans
Bridge Name:
6. Louisiana Highway 1 Bridge
Gateway to the Gulf expressway
Length:
8.26 miles, (13.3 km)
Year Open:
2009
Bridge Type:
concrete trestle toll bridge
State:
Louisiana
Crosses:
Bayou Lafourche and south Louisiana marshes
Carries:
SH 1
Connects:
Leeville, Louisiana to Port Fourchon, Louisiana
Bridge Name:
7. Jubilee Parkway
The Bayway
Length:
7.5 miles (12.1 km)
Year Open:
1978
Bridge Type: Twin concrete viaduct girder bridges
State:
Alabama
Crosses:
Mobile Bay
Carries:
Four lanes of IH 10
Connects:
Mobile, Alabama to Spanish Fort, Alabama
Bridge Name:
8. San Mateo-Hayward Bridge
San Mateo Bridge
Length:
7.3 miles (11.5 km)
Longest fixed link bridge in California
25th longest bridge in the world
Year Open:
1967
Bridge Type:
Orthotropic deck, trestle
State:
California
Crosses:
San Francisco Bay
Carries:
Four lanes of SH 92
Connects:
San Francisco to Foster city
Bridge Name:
9. Seven Mile Bridge
Length:
7 miles ( km)
Year Open:
1982
Bridge Type:
Precast segmented box girder bridge
State:
Florida
Crosses:
Knight′s Key to Little Duck Key
Carries:
two lands of US 1
Connects:
Marathon, Florida with the Lower Keys
Bridge Name:
10. General W.K. Wilson Jr. Bridge
Dolly Parton Bridge
Length:
6.08 miles (10 km)
Year Open:
1981
Bridge Type:
Dual tied through arch and concrete beam viaduct
State:
Alabama
Crosses:
Mobile-Tensaw River delta
Carries:
Four lanes of IH 65
Connects:
both sides of the Mobile river delta
Bridge Name:
11. Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
Richmond Bridge
Length:
Year Open:
1956
Bridge Type:
State:
California
Crosses:
San Francisco Bay
Carries:
4-5 lanes of IH 580
Connects:
Richmond, California to San Rafael, California
Bridge Name:
12. Frank Davis Memorial Bridge
IH 10 Twin Span Bridge
Naturally N′Awlins Memorial Bridge
Length:
5.4 miles (8.9 km)
Year Open:
Bridge Type:
Two parallel trestel bridges
State:
Louisianna
Crosses:
Lake Pontchartrain
Carries:
Six lanes of IH 10
Connects:
New Orleans to Slidell
Bridge Name:
13. Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge
Length:
5.2 miles (8.4 km)
Year Open:
2002
Bridge Type:
pre-stressed concrete segmented girder
State:
North Carolina
Crosses:
Croatan Sound
Carries:
Four lanes of US 64
Connects:
Manns Harbor to Roanoke Island
Bridge Name:
14. Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Gov. W. P. Lane Jr. Memorial Bride
The Bay Bridge
Length:
4.3 miles (6.45 km)
Year Open:
Estbound: 1952. Westbound: 1973
Bridge Type:
Both Bridges: Suspension bridge
Eastbound: concrete and steel cantilever bridge
Westbound: concrete and steel truss bridge
State:
Maryland
Crosses:
Chesapeake Bay
Carries:
Connects:
Bridge Name:
15. Sunshine Skyway Bridge
Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge
The Skyway
Length:
4.14 miles
Year Open:
1987
Bridge Type:
Cable-stayed
State:
Florida
Crosses:
Tampa Bay
Carries:
Four lanes of IH 275 and US 19
Connects:
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