New River Gorge Bridge
| Status: | | | Construction Dates | | Began | 1974 | | Finished | 1977 |
|  | | Building Uses | | - transportation | | Structural Types | | - bridge |
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Description
Architect: Michael Baker Company
Constructor: U.S. Steel - America Bridge Division
- Cost at Completion: $37,000,000
- Weight: 88,000,000lbs
- Width: 21 meters
- Length of arch: 518.2 meters
- Length of bridge: 923.5 meters
- Height above the valley floor: 267 m
- Up until February of 2003, this was the longest steel-arch bridge in the world. It was surpassed in length by the Lupu Bridge in Shanghai at 550 meters in legnth, 32 more meters than the New River Gorge Bridge.
- This is the second longest bridge in the United States of America.
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