| Name
of Bridge |
Location
|
Completion
Date
|
Cost
|
Length
|
Type
|
Purpose
|
Materials
|
Longest
Single Span
|
| Akashi
Kaikyo Bridge |
Kobe
and Awaji-shima, Japan
|
1998
|
$4.3
billion
|
12,828
ft
|
Suspension
|
Roadway
|
Steel
|
6,627
ft
|
| Brooklyn
Bridge |
Brooklyn,
New York
|
1883
|
$18
million
|
3,460
ft
|
Suspension
|
Roadway
|
Steel,
granite
|
1,595
ft
|
| Charles
River Bridge |
Boston,
Massachusetts
|
2001
|
$86.4
Million
|
1,457
ft
|
Suspension-cable-stayed
|
Highway
|
steel,
concrete
|
745
ft
|
Chesapeake
Bay Bridge-Tunnel
|
Cape
Charles,
Virginia
|
1964
|
$200
Million
|
89,760
ft (total length
79,2000 ft (bridge length)
|
Beam,
Tunnel
|
Roadway
|
steel,
concrete
|
100
ft
|
Firth
of Forth Bridge
|
S.
Queensferry, Scotland
|
1890
|
$15
Million
|
8,276
ft
|
Cantilever
|
Railway
|
Steel
|
350
ft
|
Garabit
Viaduct
|
Massif
Central, France
|
1884
|
|
1,853
ft
|
Arch
|
Railway
|
Wrought
iron
|
541
ft
|
| George
P. Coleman Bridge |
Yorktown,
Virginia
|
1952(original)
1995 (reconstruction)
|
$9
Million (original) $76.8 Million (reconstruction)
|
3,750
ft
|
Movable
(double swing span)
|
Highway
|
steel,
concrete
|
500
ft
|
Golden
Gate Bridge
|
San
Francisco, California
|
1937
|
$27
Million
|
8,981
ft
|
Suspension
|
Roadway
|
steel,
concrete
|
4,200
ft
|
Iron
Bridge
|
Shropshire,
England
|
1779
|
|
100
ft
|
Arch
|
Roadway(original,
Pedestrain (Today)
|
Cast
iron
|
100
ft
|
New
River Gorge Bridge
|
Fayetteville,
West Virginia
|
1978
|
$37
Million
|
4,224
ft
|
Arch
|
Roadway
|
Steel
|
1,700
ft
|
Sunshine
Skyway Bridge
|
St.
Petersburg,
Florida
|
1987
|
$244
Million
|
29,040
ft
|
Cable-stayed
|
Roadway
|
steel,
concrete
|
1,200
ft
|
Tacoma
Narrows Bridge
|
Tacoma,
Washington
|
1940
|
$6.4
Million
|
7,392
ft
|
Suspension
|
Roadway
|
steel,
concrete
|
2,800
ft
|
| Tower
Bridge |
London,
England
|
1894
|
|
880
ft
|
Movable
(bascule),
Suspension
|
Roadway,
pedestrain
|
Steel,
masonry
|
200
ft
|
|