Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Gibraltar Bridge

several engineers have advanced designs for a Gibraltar Bridge on various alignments and with differing structural configurations. Professor T.Y. Lin’s proposal for a crossing between Point Oliveros and Point Cires features a 14-kilometre length, deep piers, and 5000-meter spans, far exceeding the longest current bridge spanUnited States architect Eugene Tsui produced a revolutionary design which does not resemble any existing bridge and features an original floating and submerging concept while creating a three mile wide floating island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea
Recent talk of a road bridge between Europe and Africa, spanning the Strait of Gibraltar, has centred on a slightly different type of suspension bridge

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