Talk:Royal Gorge Bridge

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Royal Gorge Bridge Andrea Nyquist, General Services Director P.O. Box 549, Canon City, Colorado 81215 (719) 275-7507 (888) 333-5597 toll free (719) 269-3501 fax World's highest suspension bridge spans the Arkansas River and Colorado's spectacular Royal Gorge at a height of 1,053 feet. Park also features an aerial tram and incline railway to bottom of gorge.

1906 Popular Mechanics article

Just stumbled across an article in the Nov. 1906 issue of Popular Mechanics (p.1131, Bridge Half Mile In Air), that seems to be discussing a trolley bridge (glass-bottomed, no less) being built across the Royal Gorge a couple decades before the subject of this article. It's short on details (aside from claiming a rather unlikely height of 2627ft), but I figured someone here might at least find it interesting. --21:04, 15 March 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.234.116.22 (talk)

Contradiction

Millau and the Royal George bridge both claim that their deck height is larger than the other in both the Millau and the Royal Gorge Bridge articles. I note that this has been recified in the past but both need fixing and the 'List of tallest bridges' also needs fixing.

Still true---the 1053 ft figure appears incorrectly in many places. That number is probably the height of the top of the towers above the river, not the deck height, which is what the lists compare. It's clearly incorrect for the deck height, see mapper.acme.com for example for a topographic map. (Spireguy, not logged in) 216.184.22.43 (talk) 16:53, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

There's a further contradiction: "...held the record of highest bridge in the world from 1929 until 2001, when it was surpassed by the Liuguanghe Bridge in China" (lead) vs " ...held the record of highest bridge in the world from 1929 to 2003, with a height of 956 ft. In 2003 it was surpassed by the Beipanjiang River 2003 Bridge" ("Construction and history"). Dave.Dunford (talk) 11:27, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

The confusion exists in the TYPES of records broken. The "highest bridge in the world" record was broken in 2001. The bridge still maintained the "highest suspension bridge in the world" record, until 2003. I suggest and edit on the 2003 record, clarifying the record that was broken. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.179.86 (talk) 14:19, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Contradiction fixed, refs added, un-ref'd statements removed, most of article re-written. Brian W. Schaller (talk) 02:15, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

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The comparison with the Millau-viaduct is not correct, since the Millau-viaduct is not a suspension bridge.

In addition I am quite sure that the Millau-Viaduct is not a whole Order of Magnitude higher than this bridge. It is not even close.

Also, this article contradicts the Millau-Viaduct page, which states that the Royal Gorge Bridge does, in fact, have the highest deck.

Erm, that's right. I fixed the article. At least the numbers are consistent =) --Gribeco 20:33, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Si Du River Bridge

The Si Du River Bridge will overtake this bridge as the highest in the world once it opens to traffic. - ¢Spender1983 (talk) 21:04, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Bridge is mentioned now along with two other Chinese bridges & more bridges coming soon. Brian W. Schaller (talk) 02:17, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Merge proposal

I would suggest merging this article with Royal Gorge article, wouldn´t you agree? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cunikm (talk • contribs) 12:58, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Suicide

It's a great spot to commit suicide by jumping off, with no reference or even an example of this ever occurring...? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.193.164.242 (talk) 12:16, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

2012 - added 3 suicides w/ref & others can be found easily. Brian W. Schaller (talk) 02:20, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Wiki webpage's error

The coordinates in webpage's upper right corner is showed twice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:7D0:819C:AE80:4406:299E:ACB5:BCF6 (talk) 08:51, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Fixed. Brian W. Schaller (talk) 01:23, 21 May 2018 (UTC)