List of vertical-lift bridges

This is a list of vertical-lift bridges.

Australia

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The Bridgewater Bridge is one of the last remaining operational vertical-lift bridges in Australia

Belgium

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  • BudabrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Schelde – opened 1955
  • EuropabrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Schelde – opened 1972
  • VerbrandebrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Schelde – opened 1968
  • HumbeekbrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Willebroek – opened 1968
  • BrielenbrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Schelde – opened 1968
  • RingbrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Willebroek – opened 1986
  • VredesbrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Schelde – opened 1952

Brazil

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Canada

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China

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A ferry is crossing the lifted Haimen Bridge

France

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The Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas's approx. 110-metre (360 ft) lift span is likely the longest in Europe,[1] but that of the Pont Gustave-Flaubert is very nearly as long.
  • Pont Gustave-Flaubert – crossing the Seine at Rouen, this lift bridge is the highest vertical-lift bridge in Europe,[citation needed] allowing ships up to 55 m tall to pass under it. It is 670 m long, with a span of 116 metres[3]. A striking design feature, the two road sections are mounted outside the central towers. The bridge was designed by François Gillard and Aymeric Zublena and opened to road traffic on 25 September 2008. It is named after the author Gustave Flaubert who was born in Rouen.[4]
  • Pont de Recouvrance – over the river Penfeld in Brest – road & tramway[5]
  • Pont Levant de CriméeFR – over the Ourcq Canal; the last surviving vertical-lift bridge in Paris
  • The Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas, spanning the River Garonne in Bordeaux, was opened in March 2013. The central lift span is 117m long and can be lifted vertically up to 53m to let tall ships pass underneath. The bridge is 575m long with the central lift span weighing around 2,600 tonnes. Its width varies from 32 to 45m and it will be used by cars, trams, cyclists and pedestrians. It can handle 43,000 vehicles a day and will reduce traffic congestion in Bordeaux.[6] Structurae gives a length of 110 m for the lift span,[7] making it probably the longest vertical-lift span in Europe.[1]

Germany

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Kattwyk Bridges, in Hamburg, Germany, left bridge with its lift span raised
  • Rethe Lift Bridge [de] in Hamburg, from 1934, demolished in 2018
  • Karnin Lift Bridge, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Kattwyk Bridge [de], a pair of vertical-lift bridges in Hamburg, have a lift span 100 m long, one of the longest in Europe[1] It's opened in a regular schedule every two hours.

Indonesia

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  • Ampera Bridge – an automobile lift bridge located in Palembang that cross the Musi River. This bridge is still used by road vehicles but since 1970 never lift its road deck again. Eventually its counterweights removed in 1990.[8]

Italy

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Ponte Due Giugno in Fiumicino, Italy

Japan

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  • Chikugo River Lift Bridge – connecting Ōkawa, Fukuoka and Saga, Saga. Constructed as a railway bridge in 1935, it is 507 m long, with a central span 24 m long that weighs 48 t and rises 23 m. The railway closed in 1987, but the bridge reopened to pedestrians in 1996 and was designated an important cultural property in 2003.[9]

The Netherlands

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The Botlek bridge in Rotterdam has two lifting spans of 87×50 m (95×55 yd), each with a surface area approaching a football field.[10]

Romania/Bulgaria

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  • Danube Bridge, connecting both countries over Danube, between Giurgiu and Russe. Opened on 20 June 1954, the bridge is 2,223.52 m (7,295.0 ft) long and has a central lift-bridge (85 m) to allow the free-passing oversized boats passage.

Russia

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Sweden

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Ukraine

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United Kingdom

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United States

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Alabama

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Arkansas

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California

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Tower Bridge in Sacramento, California

Connecticut

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Delaware

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Florida

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The Main Street Bridge in downtown Jacksonville, Florida.

Georgia

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Illinois

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Kentucky

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The vertical-lift section of the Fourteenth Street Bridge at the east entrance to the Portland Canal in Louisville, Kentucky.

Louisiana

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Maine and New Hampshire

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Massachusetts

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Michigan

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Minnesota and Wisconsin

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Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota

Missouri

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  • ASB Bridge – A two-deck bridge over the Missouri River in Kansas City. From 1911 to 1987, handled both trains and cars, on separate decks, and still carries railroad traffic.
  • Harry S. Truman Bridge – Opened in 1945, a single-track railroad bridge over the Missouri River, in Kansas City.

Montana

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New York City and northern New Jersey

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New York (upstate)

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Two Erie Canal lift bridges in Lockport, New York, the nearest one shown raised for canal traffic (and closed to road traffic). The pedestrian stairs allow foot traffic to cross the raised span. Initially these bridges normally remained open for canal traffic and closed on demand for the sparse road traffic of the early 20th century. In 2011, the Adam Street Lift Bridge (in the background) was closed and left in the raised position. This image was taken in July 2010.

North Carolina

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Ohio

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  • Conrail Bridge – A single-track railroad bridge over the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, one of nine railroad and automobile lift bridges, and three bascule bridges, allowing ore boats to service the Flats.

Oregon and Washington (state)

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Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon
 
The Interstate Bridge, on Interstate 5 between Oregon and Washington, is one of only very few opening bridges on the national Interstate Highway System.

Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey

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Texas

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  • Rio Hondo Bridge – Built in 1953, Texas’s only lift bridge built between 1945 and 1960 still operating. Considered a prime gateway of the Rio Grande Valley, the bridge remains critical to the region’s economy. Every year, its spans open about 250 times to make room for barges hauling fuel, fertilizer, sand and cement to the Port of Harlingen.

Virginia

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Vertical Lift Bridges: Most Important Structures in this Category". Structurae. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
  2. ^ "Gustave Flaubert Bridge". Structurae. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
  3. ^ Structurae gives a length of 100 m[2]
  4. ^ "6th bridge at Rouen: Pont Gustave Flaubert". Retrieved 2009-06-06.
  5. ^ Today's Railways Europe #1214, p15
  6. ^ "Bordeaux opens new lift bridge". The Connexion. March 18, 2013. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  7. ^ "Jacques Chaban-Delmas Bridge". Structurae. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
  8. ^ "33 Tahun Sudah Jembatan Ampera Tak Bisa Naik Turun Lagi". Kompas (in Indonesian). April 19, 2003. Archived from the original on April 20, 2003. Retrieved September 15, 2007.
  9. ^ Nihon Keizai Shimbun Evening edition 8 December 2008 p.1
  10. ^ "De nieuwe Botlekbrug: Hefbrug van wereldformaat" [The new Botlek bridge: a lift-bridge of worldly size] (in Dutch). A-Lanes A15. 2012. Retrieved 29 Sep 2014.
  11. ^ "Bridge".
  12. ^ "Naheola Bridge". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  13. ^ "Alabama bridge is one of only a few like it worldwide". al. 2021-07-21. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  14. ^ "Napa River Railroad Bridge".
  15. ^ "The Joe Page Bridge". Meeting of the Great Rivers Scenic Byway. Retrieved 2011-03-09.
  16. ^ Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. LA-31, "West Pearl River Bridge"
  17. ^ "Center of New Bridge Floated Across Arthur Kill on 4 Barges". New York Times. June 1, 1959. Retrieved 2010-09-16. The center of the world's longest vertical lift bridge was floated into place yesterday across the Arthur Kill between Elizabethport, N. J., and Arlington, S. I. ... Section of new BO bridge is moved into position in Arthur Kill behind old ... Kill on 4 Barges. The center of the world's longest vertical lift bridge ...
  18. ^ "The Arthur Kill Bridge.; Arguments For And Against The Proposed Plans" (PDF). The New York Times. 1888-03-22.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places - New York State Barge Canal" (PDF). Retrieved Sep 13, 2017.
  20. ^ "The Fairport Lift Bridge". Frank E. Sadowski Jr. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
  21. ^ a b Wood-Wortman, Sharon; Wortman, Ed (2006). The Portland Bridge Book (3rd ed.). Urban Adventure Press. pp. 119–123. ISBN 0-9787365-1-6.
  22. ^ "Willamette River (Steel) Bridge" (DOC). Portland Bridges. Oregon Department of Transportation. 1999. Retrieved 2007-08-25.