Surprising Facts About Bridges That You May Don’t Know

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Surprising Facts About Bridges That You May Dont
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An Overview

• Undeniably, bridges are a critical component of a
  countrys infrastructure making it possible to
  ship raw materials and goods to warehouses,
  factories, distributors, suppliers,
  end-consumers, and stores.
• Apart from this, bridges also facilitate travel
  making it easier for consumers to buy services
  and goods from anywhere they want. There are
  600,000 bridges in America. Some of them are
  privately owned bridges too. Well, in comparison
  to other countries across the world, the United
  States has few privately owned bridges.
• Public-private partnership is new in America.
  According to this agreement, bridge
  infrastructure companies invest private bridge
  capital for solving the infrastructure crisis in
  the United States.

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Lets Dive Into Some Surprising Facts About
Bridges That You May Dont Know
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• Some Bridges Go Nowhere

• Bridges Can Be Eco-Friendly

• Bridges Can Be Made from Glass

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Some Bridges Go Nowhere

• Clearly, there are many bridges across the world
  that move consumer goods, utility services, and
  commuters from one place to another.
  Surprisingly, there are some bridge structures
  that absolutely go nowhere.
• Wondering, why?
• There can be many reasons like they have never
  completed, they are defunct bridges, or they are
  not designed to commute. The bridge near
  Castrop-Rauxel, Germany is one of the biggest
  examples of such bridges.

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Bridges Can Be Eco-Friendly

• Engineers develop bridges implementing advanced
  technologies and construction techniques.
  However, in some cases, the objective of
  developing a bridge is to protect or maintain a
  fragile ecosystem.
• These are bridges are architecturally amazing.
  The Kurilpa Bridge in Brisbane, Langkawi Sky
  Bridge in Malaysia are examples of
  environment-friendly bridges.

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Bridges Can Be Made from Glass

• You may have seen many videos having glass
  bridges. Well, thats true. There are some
  bridges that are made up of glass.
• The longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge was
  built in China. The bridge is suspended more than
  1,400 feet and is about 1,000 feet long.

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