List of the largest cantilever bridges
The list of the largest cantilever bridges classified boom bridges to the largest span.
photo | rank | Surname | bridged | Clamping wide m |
Total length m |
Clear height | material | completion position |
Rail / road | country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Pont de Quebec | Saint Lawrence River | 549 | 987 | 46 | steel | 1917 | Rail road | Canada | |
2. | Forth Bridge | Firth of Forth | 521 × 2 | 2500 | 46 | steel | 1890 | rail | United Kingdom | |
3. | Minato Bridge | Osaka Bay | 510 | 983 | 51 | steel | 1974/1990 (lower deck) | Street | Japan | |
4th | Commodore Barry Bridge | Delaware River near Chester, Pennsylvania | 501 | 2540 | 58.5 | steel | 1974 | Street | United States | |
5. | Crescent City Connection : Greater New Orleans Bridge I and II | Mississippi near New Orleans | 480 | 4093 | 52 | steel | 1958 (east) and 1988 (west) | Street | United States | |
6th | Howrah Bridge (Rabindra Bridge) | Hugli (Ganges) near Calcutta | 457 | 671 | 8.8 | steel | 1943 | Street | India | |
7th | Gramercy Bridge | Mississippi at Gramercy | 445 | 945 | 50 | steel | 1995 | Street | United States | |
8th. | Old East Bay Bridge | San Francisco Bay | 427 | 3102 | 46 | steel | 1936
Dismantling from 2013 |
Street | United States | |
9. | Horace Wilkinson Bridge | Mississippi at Baton Rouge | 376 | 1387 | 53 | steel | 1968 | Street | United States | |
10. | Tappan Zee Bridge | Hudson River near Tarrytown (New York) | 369 | 4881 | 42 | steel | 1955 | Street | United States | |
11. | Lewis and Clark Bridge | Columbia River near Longview (Washington) | 366 | 2526 | 64 | steel | 1930 | Street | United States | |
12. | Queensboro Bridge | East River | 360 | 2470 | 40 | steel | 1909 | Street | United States | |
13. | Puente de las Americas | Panama Canal | 344 | 1654 | 61 | steel | 1962 | Street | Panama | |
14th | Carquinez Bridge | Carquinez Street | 335 × 2 | 1056 | 43 | steel | 1927 (demolished), 1958 | Street | United States | |
15th | Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing | Burrard Inlet | 335 | 1292 | steel | 1961 | Street | Canada | ||
16. | Pont Jacques-Cartier | Saint Lawrence River | 334 | 2687 | 49 | steel | 1930 | Street | Canada | |
17th | Hart Bridge | St. Johns River near Jacksonville | 332 | 1172 | 43 | steel | 1967 | Street | United States | |
18th | Richmond – San Rafael Bridge | San Francisco Bay | 326 × 2 | 8851 | 56 | steel | 1956 | Street | United States | |
19th | Cooper River Bridge | Cooper River near Charleston, South Carolina | 320 | 3114 | steel | 1929, demolished in 2006 | Street | United States | ||
20th | Newburgh – Beacon Bridge near Beacon (New York) | Hudson River at | 305 | 2394 (north) | 41 | steel | 1963 (north), 1981 (south) | Street | United States | |
21st | Stolmabrua | Stolmasund south of Bergen | 301 | 467 | 20th | concrete | 1998 | Street | Norway | |
22nd | Raftsundbrua | Raftsund | 298 | 711 | 45 | concrete | 1998 | Street | Norway | |
23. | Sundøy Bridge | Leirfjord | 298 | 538 | 43.5 | concrete | 2003 | Street | Norway | |
24. | Martin Luther King Bridge | Mississippi | 294 | 1222 | 30th | steel | 1950 | Street | United States | |
25th | Story bridge | Brisbane River | 282 | 777 | 30.5 | steel | 1940 | Street | Australia |