Pont de Normandie

The Pont de Normandie is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the river Seine linking Le Havre to Honfleur in Normandy, northern France. Its total length is 2143.21 m (856 m between the 2 piers).

Construction

Construction began in 1988 and lasted 7 years. The bridge opened on January 20 1995.
At that time the bridge was the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, more than 250 m longer between piers than the previous record. This record was lost in 1999 to the Tartara bridge in Japan.

Its record for length for a cable-stayed bridge was lost in 2004 to the 2883 meters of the Rio-Antirio.

Structure

The span, 23.60 m wide, is divided into 4 lanes for traffic and 2 lanes for pedestrians. The pylons, made of concrete, are shaped as upside-down Y's. They weigh more than 20,000 tons and are 214.77 m tall.