WORLD'S LONGEST BRIDGE.
Official plans have just been completed for a third steel suspension bridge connecting New York and Brooklyn, which will completely eclipse all its predecessors. It will be 10,000 feet in length— the longest city bridge in the world.
In addition to ample accommodation for foot passengers, it will have roadways for horse vehicles and lines for electric tramways and trains. It will be largely used a place of recreation, and will have a large hall for meetings at one end, and a concert hall at the other. Four large lifts will convey people from the street to the bridge promenade.
A novel engineering feature will be cables which will pass over towers stantling on pivots and automatically taking up the "slack" due, to contraction and expansion from climatic changes, instead of the usual sliding leverages. s
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 86, 11 April 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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139WORLD'S LONGEST BRIDGE. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 86, 11 April 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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