They helped forge an unlikely kinship between two coastal towns desperate to see traffic flowing freely on their much-anticipated third river crossings. Now the friendly rivalry between Great Yarmouth ...

Concrete played a big role in the replacement of what was known as the "killer bridge" over the Duwamish River. The job included a new double-leaf bascule bridge and a rehabilitation of the ...

Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, shared that the 1956-era bridge, formally named after the late U.S. Sen. Burnet R. Maybank, connects Charleston to James Island. “It is a double-leaf bascule ...

The MLK Bridge is a double-leaf bascule bridge, meaning it has two movable sections that can be raised to allow river traffic to pass underneath. Including its approaches, the bridge measures ...

The new Pamban Bridge is set to open in early April, with the construction starting in February 2020. It will be India’s ...

It is a double-leaf bascule bridge which opens in the middle to allow river traffic taller than 4.5m (15ft) through. It was made in two halves by a specialist firm in Belgium, before being ...

The bridge is a single-span, double-leaf bascule bridge. Construction of Lowestoft’s third crossing over Lake Lothing began in spring 2021, with the Gull Wing bridge opened to the public on ...

Similarly, over in Great Yarmouth, the then Conservative MP for the town, Brandon Lewis, heralded the Herring Bridge as "genuinely iconic and game changing". The double-leaf bascule bridge opens ...