Boring to Beautiful: Newport Transporter Bridge

NEWPORT TRANSPORTER BRIDGE A transporter bridge is a type of movable bridge that carries a segment of roadway across a river. The segment is called a gondola. It is slung from a tall span by wires or a metal frame. The design has been used to cross navigable rivers or other bodies of water, where there is a requirement for ship traffic to be able to pass. This is a rare type of bridge, with fewer than two dozen built. Only eight are in operation today. WHERE ARE THE EIGHT TRANSPORTERS? ERLEBNISBRUCKE MIDDLESBROUGH MUNGSTEN NEWPORT OSTEN RENDSBURG ROCHEFORT-MARTROU VIZCAYA STATISTICS IF I HAD A QUID Newport Transporter bridge costs £1 to use and can carry six cars per time, making on average 8 journeys per day. The bridge can generate on average.. E250 £1000 per week per month £12,000 £1.2m per year per century HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION Newport Transporter bridge weighs a hefty 560 tons! That roughly equates to... 7500 humans 3 Boeing 747s SUPERSTAR DJ Newport Transporter bridge has had more than its fair share of time in the spotlight.. Appearance in Tiger Bay (1959) Appearance in The Other Side of Biography in Friends of Newport the Underneath (1972) Transpoter Bridge (1998) £4.5M EEEEEEEB TOTAL INVESTMENT tiafidesign.co.uk 1/35th of the length of Qingdao Haiwan Bridge the longest bridge across water in the world 200 240 280 SIZE MATTERS Newport: 196m Middlesbrough: 180m Vizcaya: 164m 140m Rendsburg: 1 I Rochefort-Martrou: 140m Müngsten: 128m Osten: 80m Erlebnisbrücke: 57m Müngsten: 2006 - Rendsburg: 191: Middlesbrough: 1911 Osten: 1909 Newport: 1906 Erlebnisbrücke: 2003 III Rochefort-Martrou: 1500 Vizcaya: 1983 1 006 the oldest of the Eight Wonders of the World /9th of the age of the Great Pyramids of Giza LIKE A FINE WINE