The 321-ft-long, 24-ft-wide structure is the only floating bridge in the U.S. composed of glued laminated timber approach ramps connected to a 261-ft-long floating span, which is supported by ...

The new State Route 520 floating bridge will open in April, and the Department of Transportation has a big celebration planned for the world's longest floating bridge. The weekend festivities atop the ...

You could be forgiven for expecting a bridge to rise above the water over which it is intended to span. A new bridge in the Netherlands, however, takes a different approach. The Ravelijn Bridge floats ...

Two hundred years ago, when the tide was low enough, it was possible to walk from part of Brooklyn to Governors Island–a small island 400 yards away–on a sandbar. Then the waterway was dredged to make ...

SEATTLE - After a decade of planning and five years of construction, the new State Route 520 floating bridge opened across Lake Washington Saturday. An estimated 13,000 runners and walkers were the ...

As we drove onto the crossing of the newly reopened Brookfield floating bridge, we expected a sinking sensation, but instead enjoyed a smooth ride deliciously close to the surface of the lake. On that ...

Trains pass over all types of bridges to get where they're going, including typical steel girder and truss bridges seen all across America, trestle bridges, and even viaducts (think the Hogwarts ...

For more than a decade, the construction world has kept an eye on efforts to build a new State Route 520 floating bridge—the world’s longest—which connects Seattle to points east on Lake Washington.

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- The state's ready to open up its new 520 floating bridge across Lake Washington on the first weekend of April. The longest floating bridge in the world will be replaced by... the ...