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| Boat View, Dec 2014 |
This is another suspension bridge where the approach spans are supported by piers instead of cables.
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| Street View, Jul 2018 |
It has a LED lighting system, but it is normally red at night. "Today, the Bosphorus is an extremely busy shipping route, covering around 20 miles from north to south, and with an average of around 197 feet in depth. The widest point of the Bosphorus is a huge 2 miles, with the narrowest point just 500 meters....Around 140 cargo shipping vessels pass through the city’s waters every day, taking an average of 90 minutes each time." It handles 180,000 vehicles in either direction. [atriptoinstanbul] [So the sparse daytime traffic above must be a rare exception.]
Upon its completion in 1973, the Bosphorus Bridge had the fourth-longest suspension bridge span in the world, and the longest outside the United States" [google via Wikipedia]
Judging by the curve in the road, I think this photo is of this bridge.
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| Highway Engineering Discoveries posted 💠Istanbul , Turkey Bosphorus Bridge in night Suspension bridge in Turkey 📸 @tariksaroglu |
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| Highway Engineering Discoveries posted Istanbul Photo IG credit @mstfatyfn |
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| Highway Engineering Discoveries posted Istanbul |
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| VisitingIstanbul "It is a gravity-anchored suspension bridge with steel towers and inclined hangers. The aerodynamic deck hangs on zigzag steel cables. It is 1,560 m (5,118 ft) long with a deck width of 33.40 m (110 ft). The distance between the towers (main span) is 1,074 m (3,524 ft) and the total height of the towers is 165 m (541 ft). The clearance of the bridge from sea level is 64 m (210 ft)." [I could not find an acknowledgement on this site, but all of the text was copied from Wikipedia.] |
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| Bridges Now and Then posted The Bosphorus Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey, viewed from Çamlıca Hill on the Asian side of the Bosphorus Strait, November 21, 2013. (Alexxx Malev) |
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