Posted on Nov 22, 2008 under Steel Structures |
The 7th bridge on our list is the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge all though I do not have much information about this bridge nor do I know how much steel was used on this bridge.
If anyone has information to add please comment so we can add information. This is what we do know as of this posting Atchafalaya Basin Bridge is the 7th longest bridge in the world and the 6th longest over water. The bridge is located in Louisiana, USA and carries interstate 10 over the Atchafalaya Basin the bridge has a total length of 96,095 feet or 18.2 miles long.
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Posted on Nov 18, 2008 under Steel Structures |
The Third bridge in this series, also the Third longest bridge in the world, and the second longest bridge over water. The briidge is located in Louisiana, USA, with a length of 23 Miles it comes in right behind Lake Pontchatrain Causeway at (23.87 mi) and Bang Na Expressway (33.51 mi). we do not have much info about this bridge and I don’t know how much steel was used in it’s construction but if we get this information I will post it here, feel free to comment if you have these numbers.
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Posted on Nov 17, 2008 under Steel Structures |
The Lake Pontchatrain Causeway
also known as the Causeway is the worlds second longest bridge at 23.87 miles behind the Bang Na Expressway (33.51 mi) , the Causeway is the longest bridge in the world over water as of this posting.
The Lake Pontchatrain Causeway crosses over Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana, USA. The bridge connects Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans and Mandeville, Louisiana.
Although I don’t have the numbers on the amount of steel used in the building of this bridge I do know there are over 9000 concrete pillings supporting the bridge.
The The Lake Pontchatrain Causeway first opened in 1956 and was at that time a a two-lane span of 1/100th of a mile. bridges was expanded on and re opened on May 10th, 1969. This bridge is a toll bridge and always has been.
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