deck bridge

British  

noun

1. civil engineering a bridge with an upper horizontal beam that carries the roadway Compare through bridge

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Example Sentences

Workers also will install seven girders to support an HOV ramp leading to and from a new pedestrian and cyclist deck bridge over the highway.

From Seattle Times

Stage One focused on the front of the property — losing a high wall and deck bridge flanked by grass off the main entrance and adding a poured concrete wall, new driveway and some pavers.

From Seattle Times

The bridge is a deck bridge, the railway being carried on top.

From Project Gutenberg

In order to stiffen a bridge, it should have the two Trusses braced together at the Lower Chords always, at the Upper Chords when practicable—and in case of a deck bridge, where the roadway is supported on the upper chords, it is as well to have rods for vertical diagonal braces, their planes being perpendicular to the axis of the bridge.

From Project Gutenberg

The bridge over the Illinois River at La Salle, on the Illinois Central Railroad, shows the style of bridge technically called a "deck" bridge, in which the train is on the top.

From Project Gutenberg