What are your top 5 favorite bridges in the world?

Yankee · #1 Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 6:22 AM**

Mine would have to be

1. Golden Gate Bridge
2. Brooklyn Bridge
3. Manhattan Bridge
4. Tower Bridge
5. Tatara Bridge

(1-5. Bering Strait Bridge when it gets built

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The Chemist · #2 Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 8:24 AM**

No order:
Hangzhou Bay Bridge* (World's longest over-sea bridge)
Lupu Bridge* (World's second-longest arch bridge)
Donghai Bridge* (World's second-longest over-sea bridge)
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (World's longest suspension bridge)
Milau Viaduct

* = crossed this bridge

pico44 · #3 Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 8:34 AM**

Golden Gate Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge
George washington Bridge
Verrazano Narrows Bridge
Manhattan Bridge

ColDayMan · #4 Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 2:26 PM**

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Tower Bridge, London
Bridge of Sighs, Venice
Brooklyn Bridge, New York
(homer-alert) John Roebling Bridge, Cincinnati

iheartthed · #5 Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 3:29 PM**

1. Overseas Highway (if that counts)
2. Golden Gate Bridge, S.F.
3. George Washington Bridge, New York
4. MacArthur Bridge, Detroit
5. Mackinac Bridge, Mackinaw City, MI
6. San Diego - Coronado Bridge, San Diego (if #1 doesn't count)

Alpha · #6 Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 3:58 PM**

1.) Viaduc de Millau
2.) Great Belt Bridge, Section East
3.) Great Belt Bridge, Section West
4.) Oresund-Bridge
5.) Oland Bridge
6.) Kocher Valley Bridge
7.) Müngsten Railway Bridge

M.K. · #7 Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 4:05 PM**

From the bridges i passed by already, those:

1. Ponte Vasco da Gama Lisbon Portugal
2. Ponte 25.abril Lisbon Portugal
3. Ponte Rio-Niterói Rio de Janeiro Brazil
4. London Bridge London UK
5. Ponte Hercílio Luz Florianopolis Brazil

All others smaller.

Yep, i like Golden Gate, Milau, Oresung and the China ones, but have never seen in person only photos and TV. So for me it is not valid yet.

Steely Dan · #8 Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 6:02 PM**

out of bridges that i've seen and crossed in person:

1. mackinac bridge, michigan
2. firth of forth rail bridge, scotland
3. golden gate bridge, san francisco
4. brooklyn bridge, new york
5. ponte vecchio, florence

HM: tower bridge, london

here's a pic of Mighty Mac, my sentimental favorite. at over 5 miles in total length, this is the longest bridge in the great lakes region and was the longest suspension bridge in the world measured between anchorages when completed in 1957.

source: me

staff · #9 Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 7:00 PM**

My favourite bridge is probably the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark. It is really beautiful and massive (one of the largest main spans in the world)-- especially in person.

Kristian M

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Other bridges I like:

Chongming bridge, Shanghai:

(sina.com)

Öresund Bridge, Copenhagen-Malmö (for home sick reasons

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Kristian M

Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, Qingdao, China (u/c)

News.cn

Millau Viaduc, France

SBA73

Liede Bridge, Guangzhou, China

Skyscrapers.cn

Basically all of the bridges that China has completed in the last 5-10 years and the ones that are planned look amazing. Check out this SSC thread for Chinese bridge porn.

jetsetter · #10 Posted **Oct 22, 2009, 12:27 AM**

1. Alcántara Bridge, Alcántara, Spain

2. Ponte Sant'Angelo, Rome, Italy

3. Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina

MolsonExport · #11 Posted **Oct 22, 2009, 2:03 AM**

excellent thread, great photos.

Worldwide, brooklyn bridge.
Also love the firth of forth (scotland), pont de quebec, jacques cartier (montreal), Golden Gate, Verrazano Narrows, confederation bridge (New-Brunswick-PEI, Canada), Viaduc de Millau, Ponte vecchio (florence), ponte rialto (venice), Öresund Bridge, Mostar Bridge (Boz-Herc), Manhattan bridge, Lion's gate (Vancouver), Tower Bridge (London)....too many more to list.

LMich · #12 Posted **Oct 22, 2009, 7:36 AM**

I just have to get a few more shots in of the Mackinac Bridge in. Shameless, homerish boosterism, I know.

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MolsonExport · #13 Posted **Oct 22, 2009, 1:14 PM**

^wonderful shots.

Bedhead · #14 Posted **Oct 22, 2009, 8:46 PM**

That Millau Viaduct is something else.

Ron Taylor, Energy Efficient Building Network, http://www.energyefficientbuild.com/...u-viaduct.html

For fans of Tower Bridge in London, here are a couple of construction photos.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pict...en-London.html Telegraph

http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TBE/DE...geConstruction
Tower Bridge Exhibition,

http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TBE/DE...geConstruction Tower Bridge Exhibition

WonderlandPark · #15 Posted **Oct 23, 2009, 3:45 AM**

As a bridge geek, I can only comment on the ones that I have laid eyes on or been across

1-Golden Gate
1-Millau Viaduct (both are tied in my book)

3-Mackinac
4-Hells Gate
5-Pont du Gard (really an aqueduct)

Other nominations
* Tsing Ma & entire Lantau Link bridges
* St. John's Bridge
* Brookyln Bridge
* Skybridge between the Petronas Towers
* Eads Bridge

At least for the past 150 years, there is one thing that America done right, designed the world's most advanced, beautiful and the most variety of bridges. The torch has been passed to China and the like, but hard to argue with the sheer quantity & quality that the US built from the early 1800's to the late 20th century.

Amanita · #16 Posted **Oct 23, 2009, 8:58 PM**

Aww, love the bridge porn.

Right now, Golden Gate's my fave. That darn thing has lured me to San Francisco twice over!

Do I have to pick just four others?
I also love San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and Manhattan Bridge. Thanks to their famous neighbors, they don't get anywhere near as much love as they deserve.
I also love Mighty Mack, Verrazano, George Washington, and a slew of others.
Oh yeah, Sunshine Skyway Bridge gets a vote too.

I've had some fun lately doing "character portraits" of some of these bridges, I might post links. Since most of you are guys, I'm sure you'll at least appreciate Sunshine Skyway's character. She's cute!

Dac150 · #17 Posted **Oct 24, 2009, 12:27 AM**

The Brooklyn Bridge really stands alone in my book, but a few others would include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, Manhattan Bridge and the Hellgate Bridge. Pretty much every span in the New York Metro Area has its merits, but the Golden Gate has to be tossed in there as well.

Amanita · #18 Posted **Oct 25, 2009, 6:35 PM**

Just an FYI, it's George Washington Bridge's birthday, turning 78 this year.
Oct 25, 1931.

Rail>Auto · #19 Posted **Oct 25, 2009, 8:06 PM**

I've always liked the bridge that connects Astoria, Washington with Seaside, Oregon.

mhays · #20 Posted **Oct 26, 2009, 5:02 AM**

Sydney Harbor Bridge.

Not only is it incredibly good looking in my book, and fairly unusual, but they let you climb it. In fact, any picture will show two or three little chains of tiny people on it. Plus it's in one of the most beautiful cities on earth, and helps make that city iconic.