Planned and Proposed Bridges
| Name | Location | Main span |
Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunda Strait Bridge | Java to Sumatra, Indonesia | about 3,000 m (9,800 ft) | Preliminary work | This project has been approved by the Indonesian government. If completed, it will not only be the world's longest suspension bridge (26 km), but will also have a main span of about 3,000 m (9,800 ft)—roughly fifty percent longer than the current record. |
| Unnamed | Qiongzhou Strait, China | about 2,000 m (6,600 ft) | Preliminary work | A suspension bridge is being considered to cross the 22.5 km wide Qiongzhou Strait. One design consists of four bridges strung together with four main spans of 2,000 m, two main-spans of 1,800 m, five anchorages and 10 towers. If completed this bridge will assume six of the top seven longest spans. |
| Chacao Channel bridge | Chiloé to mainland Chile | 1,100 m (3,600 ft) | On hold | This unusual design has two main spans of 1,055 m and 1,100 m without an anchorage between them. Construction was supposed to begin in 2007 and completed in 2012, but because of cost overruns, the project is now on hold. |
| Strait of Messina Bridge | Sicily to mainland Italy | 3,300 m (10,800 ft) | Preliminary work | The project was canceled on 11 October 2006 by the Romano Prodi-led government amid controversy concerning the bridge's cost. The new government from 2008 led by Silvio Berlusconi wants to pick up the project again. Preliminary works will begin in December 2009. The main construction is expected to begin in 2012. |
| Gibraltar Bridge | Spain to Morocco | ? | Proposed | Some designs have suspension spans of several miles. The suspension cables of a very long bridge might be suspended from the ends of cable-stayed struts extending diagonally from huge pylons. However, as of 2008, the feasibility of a tunnel is being considered instead. |
| Hålogaland Bridge | Narvik, Norway | 1,345 m (4,413 ft) | Call for bids | The bridge will reduce the distance between Narvik and Bjerkvik by 17 km. The government of Norway has awarded funding for the project, with construction start early 2013. See no:Hålogalandsbrua. |
| Sognebrua | Sognefjorden, Norway | 3,700 m (12,100 ft) | Proposed | One of several proposals for crossing the 1300m deep fjord as part of making the E39 highway along Norway's west coast ferry-free. The bridge would utilize two towers 450 m tall and have a maximum clearance above water of 70 m. Plans call for the highway project, including this crossing, to finish by 2025. |
| Storfjord Bridge | Storfjorden, Norway | 2,300 m (7,500 ft) | Plans under consideration | Will replace the ferry connecting the towns of Sykkylven and Ålesund as well as being part of the "ferry-free E39" project. Unusually, the proposed design will have the roadway split around single column towers. |
| Unnamed | Halsafjord, Norway | 2,000 m (6,600 ft) | Proposed | The bridge will replace a ferry, and reduce the driving time between Trondheim and Molde by 34 minutes. |
| 3 rd Istanbul Bridge | Istanbul, Turkey | 1,500 m (4,900 ft) c. | Bids for the project will be accepted by the Turkish Government on 10 January 2012 | It will be the third suspension bridge for crossing the Bosphorus as part of North Marmara Motorway.Ictas and Astaldi Construction companies took its tender from the government on 29 May 2012 |
Read more about this topic: List Of Longest Suspension Bridge Spans
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