Instead of pushing straight down, the weight of an arch bridge is carried outward along the curve of the arch to the supports at each end. These supports, called the abutments, carry the load and ...

Full completion is targeted for 2027. The 400-foot-long, 80-foot tall, 2,500-ton arch bridge section was floated from a fabricating plant near Albany on a barge down the Hudson River and started ...

The new bridge will replace the 114-year old Portal Bridge, a swing bridge across the Hackensack River that often gets stuck.

The bridge, at almost 574 metres long and 78 metres tall, is the largest brick-built bridge in the world ... To fix this problem, the central arch is wider than the others, a solution conceived ...

Construction along the Stone Arch Bridge flip-flopped with the downtown Minneapolis side of the bridge now closed for ...

The first of three giant arches that will support a new railroad bridge over the Hackensack River has been moved into place at the construction site, and NJ Transit and Amtrak officials gave the ...