Caltrans reports that workers last week placed the world s largest cable saddle atop the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge s self-anchored suspension span (SAS). The tower for the SAS, the ...

According to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, there are 171.5 million crossings per day on over 45,000 structurally deficient U.S. bridges—a significant number of which have ...

The complicated and mysterious-looking scaffolding on the west side and just at the center of the Golden Gate Bridge is part of a major maintenance project on the two main cables that hold up the ...

Minneapolis bridge inspector John Beetsch said he was in shock after learning the cables from the Martin Olav Sabo Bridge he inspected failed Sunday evening. Beetsch and colleague Kent Madsen spent a ...

Cable-stayed bridges may look similar to suspension bridges—both have roadways that hang from cables and both have towers. But the two bridges support the load of the roadway in very different ways.

The Golden Gate Bridge's builders introduced many innovations, but perhaps the most impressive was the precise and efficient technique they used to construct the massive cables. The bridge's designers ...

Had you crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge just a few weeks ago, as millions of motorists did before a wayward container ship struck it in the early hours of March 26, you’d have passed below a ...

South Coast Railway has achieved a major feat, replacing 500 of 672 corroded hanger cables on the historic Godavari Bow ...