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unusual facts about cantilever bridge



Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge

It had been known for over thirty years that a major earthquake on either of two nearby faults (the San Andreas and the Hayward) would destroy the major cantilever span.

Knight Street Bridge

The Knight Street Bridge is a cantilever bridge which spans the North Arm of the Fraser River in British Columbia, connecting Vancouver and Richmond, and serving as a feeder route for Highways 91 and 99 to its south.

Varapuzha Bridge

The Varapuzha bridge on NH 17 is a cantilever bridge spanning the Periyar river between Varapuzha and Cheranallur.


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Alexander Meadows Rendel

He designed the Lansdowne Bridge Rohri at Sukkur over the Indus River, which when it was completed in 1889 was the largest cantilever bridge in the world.

Bolte

Bolte Bridge, large twin Cantilever bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Vantage, Washington

The original bridge was dismantled, and moved to the crossing at Lyons Ferry, where it still stands today as the oldest extant steel cantilever bridge in Washington, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.