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cantilever bridge

noun

  1. a bridge having spans that are constructed as cantilevers and often a suspended span or spans, each end of which rests on one end of a cantilever span

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Grand Canyon West is home to the Hualapai Tribe and the Grand Canyon Skywalk, a horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge with a glass walkway at Eagle Point near the Colorado River.

But to preservationists, what’s left of the trams — as much a Kolkata institution as the universities the steel carriages trundle past, or the city’s cantilever bridge — must be saved.

We passed the Bridge of the Gods, a steel truss cantilever bridge that leads to Cascade Locks, Oregon.

The $1.7 billion project will focus on a heavily trafficked section of the expressway in Brooklyn between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street, which includes a triple cantilever bridge structure resembling a concrete wedding cake.

The Jacques Cartier Bridge, a Montreal landmark, is receiving a facelift for the anniversary. The historic, steel truss, cantilever bridge crosses the St. Lawrence River from Montreal Island to the south shore at Longueuil, Quebec.

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