Notable Cable-stayed Bridges
See also: List of largest cable-stayed bridges and Category:Cable-stayed bridges
- Bridge to Russky Island: the world’s largest cable-stayed bridge, with the 1104 m long central span.
- Surgut Bridge: the longest single-pylon cable-stayed bridge in the world. The bridge is 2,110 meters (6,920 ft) long. Its central span is 408 meters (1,339 ft)
- Bandra Worli Sea-Link: The new 5.6-kilometre (3 mi) 8-lane twin carriageway cable-stayed bridge (main spans 2 x 250 m) of the sea-link project and the West Island Freeway system, opened on June 30, 2009, connects Greater Mumbai, India to the western suburbs.
- Cable Bridge: The second cable-stayed bridge in the United States, crosses the Columbia River and connects Pasco, Washington to Kennewick, Washington.
- Centennial Bridge: a six-lane vehicular bridge that crosses the Panama Canal with a total length of 1.05 km (3,451 ft).
- Christopher S. Bond Bridge, Kansas City: crosses the Missouri River at Kansas City which opened in September 2010
- Clark Bridge: Crosses the Mississippi River at Alton, Illinois; subject of the Nova documentary Super Bridge.
- Dames Point Bridge: Also known as the Napoleon Bonaparte Broward Bridge, this bridge crosses the St. Johns River near Blount Island in Metropolitan Jacksonville, Florida. One of the older cable-stayed bridges, opened in 1990.
- Deh Cho Bridge: First major bridge in Canada's Northwest Territories, 1100 metres across the ice-choked Mackenzie River. Completion late 2012.
- Denver Millennium Bridge: A 130-foot (40 m) long pedestrian bridge which won the Gold Award in 2003 from the New York Association of Consulting Engineers. The bridge is a focal point of the film "Imagine That" starring Eddie Murphy.
- Greenville Bridge: The third longest cable-stayed bridge main span, 1,378-foot (420 m), in the United States, and fourth longest in North America, crossing the Mississippi River between Lake Village, Arkansas and Greenville, Mississippi.
- Jesús Izcoa Moure Bridge: is the first Cable-stayed bridge in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
- John James Audubon Bridge (Mississippi River): The longest cable-stayed bridge in the Western Hemisphere, crossing the Mississippi River between New Roads, Louisiana and St. Francisville, Louisiana.
- Juscelino Kubitschek bridge: A unique bridge featuring three 200-foot-tall (61 m) asymmetrical steel arches that crisscross diagonally. Decks are suspended by steel cables alternating and interlacing at each side.
- Kap Shui Mun Bridge carries both road and railway traffic, with a main span of 430 metres and an overall length of 1323 metres, connecting Ma Wan and Lantau Island in Hong Kong as part of the Lantau Link serving Hong Kong International Airport.
- Indiano Bridge over the Arno River in Florence, Italy, 1978, is the first earth-anchored cable-stayed steel bridge in the world with central planes of cables, single inclined masts, vented deck. Central span of 210.
- Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge is the world's widest cable-stayed bridge with a 56 m (183 ft) wide bridge deck; carries 10 lanes of Interstate 93 over the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. It is also the first cable-stayed bridge with an asymmetrical deck design.
- Luling Bridge over the Mississippi River in Destrehan, Louisiana; it was the first cable-stayed bridge in the United States carrying an interstate highway
- Megyeri Bridge over the Danube in Budapest, Hungary, opened in 2008
- Millau Viaduct is the bridge with the tallest piers in the world: 341 metres tall (1,118 ft) and roadway 10 metres high (886 ft), spanning the Tarn River in France. With a total length of 2 460 m and seven towers, it also has the longest cable-stayed suspended deck in the world.
- Natcher Bridge: One of the first cable-stayed bridges on the Ohio River.
- New Railroad Bridge: the first bridge in Europe to use cable-stayed girder system in the railroad industry, connects two banks of the Sava in Belgrade.
- North Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. utilizes cable-stayed elements to avoid the full-size abutments required for a pure suspension bridge, while providing additional support with a suspension cable to minimize the height of the bridge's support towers.
- Nový Most: The world's longest cable-stayed bridge in category with one pylon and with one cable-stayed plane, spanning Danube in Bratislava, Slovakia. The main span is 303 metres, total length 430.8 metres. The only member of World Federation of Great Towers that is primarily used as a bridge. It houses a flying-sausage restaurant at the top of pylon 85 metres high.
- John O'Connell Bridge over the Sitka Channel, between Japonski Island and Baranof Island in Sitka, Alaska, 1972.
- Octavio Frias de Oliveira bridge over the Pinheiros River in São Paulo, 2008. It has a 138 metres (453 ft)-high pylon under which two stayed roads cross each other turning 90° to the opposite bank of the river.
- Oresund Bridge, a combined two-track rail and four-lane road bridge with a main span of 490 metres and a total length of 7.85 km, crossing the Öresund between Malmö, Sweden and the Danish Capital Region.
- Penang Bridge in Malaysia connects Penang island with the Malay Peninsula, with its longest span measuring 225 m.
- Pont de Normandie across the Seine in Normandy, France - briefly the world's longest cable-stayed bridge.
- Price Bridge (Passerelle George Price) spanning Belgium's Canal du Centre near Mons - commemorates George Lawrence Price, who died at its predecessor in the last minutes of World War I
- Queen Elizabeth II Bridge across the River Thames in southeast England.
- Rande Bridge in Spain near Vigo is the highway cable-stayed bridge with the longest and slenderest span in the world at the time of construction (1973–1977). Three long spans of 148 m + 400 m + 148 m. Pylons in concrete, girder in steel.
- Rama IX Bridge, Bangkok, 450 m main span, 6 traffic lanes, completed 1987, at that date the second longest centre span in the world.
- Rio-Antirio bridge with a total length of 2 880 m and four towers, this is the bridge with the second longest cable-stayed suspended deck (2 258 m long) in the world, spanning the Gulf of Corinth near Patras, Greece.
- Second Severn Crossing between England and Wales is 3.186 miles (5.127 km) long, consisting of a single central navigation span over the "Shoots" channel and approach viaducts on either side. The Second Severn Crossing Bridge uses Freyssinet cable stays.
- Skybridge is the world's longest transit-only bridge, spanning the Fraser River between New Westminster and Surrey, BC, Canada.
- Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong is a 1,596-metre-long dual 3-lane high-level cable stayed bridge, with a clear span of 1,018 metres. It is a major part of the section of Route 8. The bridge will straddle the Rambler Channel at the entrance to the busy Kwai Chung Container port.
- Sundial Bridge is an award-winning single-spar pedestrian bridge spanning the Sacramento River in Redding, California.
- Sunshine Skyway Bridge is the world's longest bridge with a cable-stayed main span; carries I-275 across Tampa Bay south of St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. The very similar looking Oresund bridge is slightly shorter but has a longer main span.
- Suramadu Bridge in Indonesia is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Southeast Asia and Indonesia. It connects the city of Surabaya in Java with the island of Madura. Its main span is 818 metres long.
- Surgut Bridge is the longest one-tower cable-stayed bridge in the world, crossing the Ob River in Siberia.
- Sutong Bridge spans the Yangtze River Delta in eastern China. It has the longest span of any cable-stayed bridge at 1,088 metres (3,570 ft), surpassing Japan's Tatara Bridge for the world's longest cable-stayed main span, but its overall length is shorter than the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in the United States.
- Tatara Bridge has the second largest span of any cable-stayed bridge at 890 metres (2,920 ft), part of a series of bridges connecting Honshū and Shikoku in Japan.
- Ting Kau Bridge is the world's first major four-span (three towers) cable-stayed bridge, forming part of the road network connecting Hong Kong International Airport to other parts of Hong Kong, China.
- Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon, Portugal is the longest bridge in Europe, with a total length of 17.2 km (10.7 mi), including 0.829 km (0.5 mi) for the main bridge, 11.5 km (7.1 mi) in viaducts, and 4.8 km (3.0 mi) in extension roads.
- Veterans' Glass City Skyway in Toledo, Ohio has a total length of 8,800 feet (2 682 m). The bridge is the most expensive project ever undertaken by the Ohio Department of Transportation(ODOT), costing approximately US$237 million. It carries six lanes of Interstate 280 across the Maumee River.
- Vidyasagar Setu (2nd Hooghly Bridge) in Kolkata, West Bengal, India is the second longest cable-stayed bridge in the Indian subcontinent, with the main span measuring 457.2 m (1,500 ft) and total length being 823 m (2,700 ft).
- Zhivopisny Bridge in Moscow, Russia, is the highest cable-stayed bridge in Europe.
- Zarate-Brazo Largo Bridges over the Paraná Guazú and Paraná de las Palmas Rivers in Argentina (1972–1976) are the first two road and railway long-span cable-stayed steel bridges in the world. Spans: 110 m + 330 m + 110 m.
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