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Highest Bridge in the World Nearing Completion

Posted by michael on from the don't-look-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A weekend cookie for all engineering geeks out here. The central span of the Millau bridge (270 meters or 886 ft) has been completed!" The photo is awesome.

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  1. Highest Bridge by larry2k · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Get your bungie jumping ropes and take a plane to france!!!

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  2. Terminal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hopefully it wasn't designed by the same folks who brought France the new terminal 2E at Charles de Gaulle Airport.

    Don't mod this up.

  3. obligatory cheap shot by captaineo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    One would hope the French are a little better at building bridges than airports...

  4. Titanium guardrails? by lothar97 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I sure hope they make the guardrails really strong. It would really suck to fall over into the valley like these poor saps in Seattle.

    I imagine this will be a new target of French suicide showoffs, bored with jumping off the Eiffel Tower.

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  5. Screw that.... by Zugot · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That Deleware Memorial Bridge is high enough.

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  6. why did they build it this way? by pedantic+bore · · Score: 0, Redundant
    One thing that's not explained in the article is why they built this bridge so high in the first place. From the photo it looks like the bridge spans a fairly flat valley. Why not go down and then back up? I mean it's pretty cool and all that, but 310M euros is a lot of money to spend on coolness. Can someone in the know explain why it make sense to build the tallest bridge in the world over a valley in France?

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