vertical-lift bridge
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The company designed more than 30 vertical-lift bridges for highways and railroads.

It is a two-lane vertical-lift bridge with a sidewalk/bikepath on either side.

It is a 300-foot-long vertical-lift bridge that is raised and lowered like an elevator in between two columns.

The barrier blocks drivers from going off the vertical-lift bridge when its center span is raised to allow ships to pass.

Opened in 1910, it is the oldest operating vertical-lift bridge in the United States.

Two arches on the eastern end of the bridge were removed and replaced by a vertical-lift bridge.

It is an old-fashioned vertical-lift bridge, 45 feet above the water, that opens quietly with giant pulleys lifting the center span straight up.

The current bridge was built as a replacement to the original vertical-lift bridge which was twice struck by ships.

It is a vertical-lift bridge, meaning that the central portion of the bridge can be elevated to allow boats to pass underneath.

The biggest disadvantage to the vertical-lift bridge (in comparison with many other designs) is the height restriction for vessels passing under it.

When completed, Snowden Bridge was the longest (1,159 feet) vertical-lift bridge in the world.

John Alexander Low Waddell invented the modern-day vertical-lift bridge.

Technically part of the Alexandria-Pineville Expressway, it was a four-lane steel vertical-lift bridge.

The Pretoria Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge in Ottawa, Canada.

Although most vertical-lift bridges use towers, each equipped with counterweights, some use hydraulic jacks located below the deck.

Secondly, it is a vertical-lift bridge and needs to be raised regularly to allow marine traffic to pass under it, leading to lengthy traffic delays.

The Lincoln Highway Bridge is an old-fashioned vertical-lift bridge that lifts a large piece of the roadway straight up when it opens.

The Pont de Recouvrance is a vertical-lift bridge in Brest, France, across the river Penfeld.

The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge is a steel vertical-lift bridge in North Carolina.

It is the only vertical-lift bridge across the Chicago River, and it was designated a Chicago Landmark on December 12, 2007.

A vertical-lift bridge or lift bridge is a type of movable bridge in which a span rises vertically while remaining parallel with the deck.

In 1934, when the Triborough was built, the span between Randall's Island and Manhattan was the largest vertical-lift bridge in the world.

How could two police officers be sent to a damaged vertical-lift bridge and positioned near its edge and not be told that it was about to be raised?

It is the oldest vertical-lift bridge in operation in the United States and the oldest highway bridge in Portland.

The Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas is a vertical-lift bridge over the Garonne in Bordeaux, France.

A plan was made to build the modern lifting bridge.

Its features make it the highest lift bridge in the world.

A lift bridge was built in 1905, joining the communities on either side of the river.

The two lift bridges in the district were built during this period, which ended around 1930.

Construction of the current vertical lift bridge began in 1951.

Both are lifting bridges, which can be raised to allow river traffic to pass through.

A lift bridge, for example, is similar to one recently restored in Milford.

A new river crossing has been needed for decades to replace a lift bridge constructed in 1931.

A short section at Sleaford was opened in 2010, following the installation of a lift bridge.

A single ship would hold up traffic for at least ten minutes as it travelled under a vertical lift bridge.

The lift bridge is the last of several previous crossings over the waterway.

When the rail link opens, a train would make one round trip a day over the lift bridge six days a week.

Construction on the present steel vertical lift bridge across the Derwent began in 1939.

Today, a cairn at the west approach to the lift bridge commemorates the event.

It is a lift bridge with one railroad track and two vehicular lanes.

The report raised questions about the final moments after the two police officers drove off an open vertical lift bridge on Dec. 25.

The lift bridge is capable of sufficient vertical clearance for ship traffic.

It has one lock, five swing or lift bridges and is carried across two aqueducts.

A replacement lift bridge might be required here.

Unlike a lift bridge this type has only slight visual impact upon its surroundings when closed for use by road traffic.

This lift bridge itself was a replacement of an earlier wooden swing bridge.

A wharf was constructed here (to the immediate east of the current lift bridge) and a trading community developed around it.

Lake City has the only lift bridge in the world that has been raised once in its construction.

Often there was an entrance, protected by a lifting bridge, a drawbridge or a timber gate tower.

On the route to Shrewsbury, the canal was crossed by a lift bridge, to the west of the junction.