This $245-million project called for reconfiguration of existing lanes, construction of additional driving lanes, reconstruction and reconfiguration of five interchanges, construction or ...
When the 1,200-foot-long Francis Scott Key Bridge opened in 1977, its enormous steel-truss design was the state of the art for river crossings. But in the decades since, a more modern design that has ...
New York State's longest bridge is in dire straits. “At times, you can see the river through the cracks in the pavement,” President Barack Obama said at a press conference in front of the Tappan Zee ...
Had you crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge just a few weeks ago, as millions of motorists did before a wayward container ship struck it in the early hours of March 26, you’d have passed below a ...
HOWRAH: A single-pylon cable-stay road over bridge (ROB) is being constructed to replace a nearly century-old bowstring bridge over the congested GT Road and across the rail tracks leading to Howrah ...
China's recently inaugurated Chantai Yangtze River Bridge, with a 1,208-m-long main span that secures it the title of world’s longest cable-stayed bridge, came with its share of engineering challenges ...
Cable-stayed bridges may look similar to suspension bridges—both have roadways that hang from cables and both have towers. But the two bridges support the load of the roadway in very different ways.