Footbridge - Examples

Examples

The record for the longest footbridge in the world is claimed by the Poughkeepsie Bridge across the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, New York. Originally built for trains, it was recently restored as a pedestrian walkway. The footbridge has a total length of 2082.15 meters (6,767 feet). Before it was demolished, the Hornibrook Bridge which crossed Bramble Bay in Queensland, Australia was longer than the Poughkeepsie Bridge at 2.8 km (1.7 mi). Other examples include:

• The Bank Bridge and the Bridge of Four Lions in Saint Petersburg
• The Capilano Suspension Bridge in British Columbia
• The Chain of Rocks Bridge near St. Louis, Missouri
• The Davenport Skybridge in Davenport, Iowa
• The Dunlop Bridge in Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, Sarthe
• The Esplanade Riel in Winnipeg, Manitoba
• The Gateshead Millennium Bridge
• The Goodwill Bridge at Brisbane, Australia
• The Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin, Ireland
• The Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge, Omaha, Nebraska
• The Jade Belt Bridge in the Summer Palace in Beijing
• The Kingsgate Bridge in Durham, England
• The Liberty Bridge at Falls Park on the Reedy in Greenville, South Carolina
• The Millennium Bridge and the high-level walkways in Tower Bridge in London
• The Newport Southbank Bridge between Newport, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio
• The Pont des Arts in Paris
• The Ponte Milvio in Rome
• The Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome
• The Pushkinsky and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Pedestrian bridges in Moscow
• The Corktown Footbridge in Ottawa
• The Rolling Bridge at Paddington Basin, London
• The Southbank footbridge in Southbank, Victoria
• The Shelby Street Bridge in Nashville, Tennessee
• The Tournament Bridge
• The pedestrian walkway over the Tropicana - Las Vegas Boulevard intersection in Paradise, Nevada
• The Waco Suspension Bridge in Waco, Texas
• The Webb bridge in Melbourne Docklands
• The Walnut Street Bridges in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Chattanooga, Tennessee
• The Willimantic Footbridge in Willimantic, Connecticut