Pont Gustave-Flaubert - Raises Butterflies

Raises Butterflies

The dual deck, each of which is 120 m long and weighing 1,300 tons, is supported by four pylons (arranged in pairs) located in the bed of the Seine. It gets up in twelve minutes, according to forecasts on average thirty times per year, particularly to make way for the sailing of the Armada in Rouen who return periodically and cruise ships that dock in the city centre (near terminal Bridge William the Conqueror). The market for construction of the bridge is mounted without the viaducts, 60 million euros. It was won in February 2004 by a subsidiary of the Bouygues Group, Rouen society Keel, in association with Eiffel, Eiffage Public Works and the Belgian firm Victor Buyck. The total cost of the operation, with access road, is 137 million euros. The declaration of public 20012 of September. Work began in June 2004. The installation of "butterflies" at the top of the battery was held on 16 and 17 August 2006, the apron 21 and August 22, 2006. The design team, which was representative engineering firm Arcadis, included the engineering Eurodim, specialist machinery and Aymeric Zublena, one of the architects of the Stade de France, and Michel Virlogeux, designer Normandy Bridge and the Viaduct of Millau. The projected traffic is estimated at 50,000 vehicles per day. It is supposed to rid the downtown quarter of 190 000 trucks daily cross the fleuve.

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Front View, at the 2008 Armada Its name, in homage to the writer Gustave Flaubert, was finally chosen December 15, 2006 by the City Council of Rouen, after consultation of the people have to choose between this name, Bridge or Bridge Rouen La Salle ( for the explorer La Salle). Until then, it was temporarily named the sixth bridge. On 14 April 2007, the barque Belem, docked for a month, went under the bridge Flaubert, after initial tests allowing it to rise enough to let him pass. A crowd of Rouen had then made an appointment to cheer the event.