Permanent floating bridges are essentially boutique structures that only make sense for certain rare kinds of sites: unusually deep bodies of water and bodies of water with very soft bottoms, where ...

One of the earliest floating bridges was constructed by Persian Engineers by parking 676 ships in two parallel rows to help Xerxes's army cross the Hellespont. Since then, floating bridges have ...

Originally built in 1908, the Northern Avenue Bridge spans Fort Point Channel, connecting the financial district with a blossoming tech center. The bridge was designed to pivot on a concrete drum to ...

Seattle is already home to one of the world’s largest floating bridges. Now Sound Transit is taking on another challenge: building steel tracks for trains on a bridge that floats and moves to the ...

Seattle’s Sound Transit had a challenging problem: how to get a new light-rail line on and off a nearly 1-mile-long Interstate 90 floating bridge while protecting the rails from the constant movement ...

Sound Transit will soon try something unprecedented — building and operating train tracks on a floating bridge. The work begins June 3 in the center express lanes of Interstate 90, after carpools, ...

Lake Washington’s original floating bridge opened in 1940 as the first road connecting Mercer Island with Seattle, or as what Bellevue boosters touted at the time, “a quick trip that would link a ...

A Link light rail train crosses the I-90 floating bridge over Lake Washington in Seattle under its own power during testing on Monday night. (Sound Transit Photo) Seattle’s reputation for innovation ...

A canal was excavated at Noyani village of Koyra upazila after cyclonic storm Aila damaged an earthen road. Twelve years later, a 311-foot floating bridge was built over the canal. The bridge, made of ...