The World's Longest Bridges

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[@evog35viii]

Shout out to the 7 ft. log that fell on top of the 1 meter stream near my home growing up. It served its purpose very well for shortcuts. Especially when I was late to school or when my gf, at the time, called to tell me she was home alone.

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[@marbleman2278]

evog35viii omg 😂😂😂

[@kissindzerkiss]

In Kenya, logs make good bridges too.

[@zed.lmaooo]

That 7 foot log is better than any bridge listed here

[@Sbenbobb9]

"At the time"

[@syrupgoblin4920]

The bridge in France at the end of the video is gorgeous

[@Bnio]

There's even a little bridge under the bigger bridge!

[@syrupgoblin4920]

Bnio XD

[@nonamedpleb]

it look even more amazing when its foggy bellow and you can't see the valley, it looks like a bridge in the clouds.

[@chatteyj]

so is your mum

[@ejoshcoron]

I know! By far the most beautiful. It's not even close.

[@JDBudzak]

legend has it he still hasn't blinked to this day

[@julianmx13]

The Cropolite Michael Caine’s biggest tip in acting: never blink

[@richardwarren1718]

I saw it I saw it. He blinked at 6:00.

[@user-xh6rg2nu3r]

@@richardwarren1718 also twice at the start

[@gggreggg]

@@richardwarren1718 I think he blinked 3 times in rapid succession. He is a delight. His pronunciation and sentence structure are superb and he has an almost teenager's enthusiasm for his presentation.

[@racheldoesyoutube1419]

Why are we taking about how many times he blinked 😂😂😂

[@panda4247]

8:38 look at that baby bridge in down there in the background..

[@Sarju017]

this is the type of videos that need to be shown in schools for teenagers to assist with choosing careers

[@TheB1M]

Absolutely!! Inspiring young people is part of our vision - www.theb1m.com/about

[@DA-bm2mj]

great video! but it would be even greater if you showed the locations of the bridges on a map in the video, and also wrote down the numbers on a screen while pronouncing them.

[@deesesarte]

Great advise!!

[@robertewalt7789]

First is southern Japan; second is in Quebec Province, Canada; third, Yangtze River, China; Fourth, Vadavlostok, Eastern Russia; last, Kobe, central Japan.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

@@deesesarte advice

[@dZaq]

This channel is so underrated. I love your videos!

[@TheB1M]

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[@connorcore7008]

Bridges really are stunning creations. They are the showy side of architecture and engineering.

[@jetrx78]

The akashi kaikyo bridge is great. I went to see it in person and there’s an observation deck inside the bridge under the roadway where you can walk out over the water. The bridge is truly breathtaking, It’s soooo amazingly big!

[@jimgreen5995]

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[@TheB1M]

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[@williamsolomon940]

Actually, the Sydney Harbour Bridge's pylons are purely aesthetic. The entire structure rests on a pair of foundations at either end of the span. The designers believed the public would consider the bridge too fragile without pylons and would avoid using it, so they added them to create confidence. Because the project was designed to create jobs during the depression (much like Hoover Dam), the pylons also meant Sydney's many qualified masons could find work while there was a significant drop in the use of expensive sandstone materials in favour of brick and concrete.

[@daveharrison84]

Imagine being promised a new bridge and then having to wait 20 years for it. It's kind of like what we're going through waiting for the California high speed rail.

[@vlogsthroughthepinhole2789]

I subscribed just to listen to you speak Fred Mills. Your voice is one of the most calming phenomenon I have ever experienced.

[@berniepodwyer]

I absolutely love it when people build a bridge. What a cool thing to do!!

[@colinflanner6804]

Consider doing a spotlight on the Mackinac (pronounced “MackinAW”) Bridge is Michigan. It’s longer than the golden gate in San Francisco at 5.1 Miles

[@kissindzerkiss]

I've always marveled at skyscrapers until recently when I started appreciating bridge architecture.

[@simonrancourt7834]

According to an urban legend, upon graduation, Quebec civil engineer receive a steel ring forged with pieces of the collapsed Quebec bridge. It is worn on the pinky finger of the working hand. It is rough at first, but is smoothed with time, symbolizing the experience that comes with age. Its purpose is to remind the engineer of their responsibility towards public safety.

[@marcob4630]

A great video indeed. Thanks for loading!

[@brennansexcavations]

This channel is the best I've seen for a long while very informative and set out

[@c.wyo_]

do a video on the Rio-Antirrio bridge in Greece!

[@troman5000]

When bridges are spoken, that ol' Golden Gate seems to slip in somewhere!

[@earthshaker3982]

The San Juanico bridge in the Philippines is over 2km long but the longest span is only up to 190 meters. Still very beautiful though. An "island-hopping" bridge if you may.

[@MadPutz]

My uncle was a managing engineer on the Akashi Kaikyo bridge. We did a tour every time we visited him in Japan. There are whirlpools under the bridge's support.

[@joaopedropeixoto8558]

The Rio-Niterói Bridge in Brazil is 13 km (8 miles) long. I think it deserved a mention!

[@Tebbe1997]

It's only the 53rd longest bridge in the world if I counted right. Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge in China is 164.8 km (102.4 mi) long.

[@citiesskyscrapers4561]

Great channel, great video!

[@TheB1M]

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[@bbartky]

I totally agree. I came across this channel by accident and now I’m totally hooked!

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[@pmdaguet]

Nice to see the Russky island bridge with its 590m long stay cables on which I worked for 3 years. A definite challenge give the extreme weather conditions, but a real pride to have been part of it.

[@13codemaster]

Pascal Martin-Daguet y did they build it

Mohammed Alshawi to develop the island; it hosts a big university among other things. Just find the city on Google Maps to understand what is the island to this city.

[@xiuyoalli]

That bridge is amazing, and it works more as a diplomatic tool for Russia with the Asian countries that as a Bridge

[@cow_tools_]

I would quite like to see a "longest causeway" video some time. Those are also quite impressive structures.

[@philrabe910]

When I moved here I was particularly smitten by the Golden Gate br. The Bay Bridge is cool too, but it is for motor vehicles only [save for one side of the new half]. I used to ride my bike to the north end where they shaved off the hilltop. If one stands on one's bike it's possible to reach up and grab the bridge deck and feel it slowly lifting and settling in the wind. That was pre 911, they'd probably take a dim view these days.

[@mdteletom1288]

The Bayonne Bridge was longer than the Sydney Harbor bridge with its main span being 25 feet longer. It was the longest bridge in the world when it was completed and aesthetically is almost identical to Sydney's. It's also one of the most overlooked bridges in the world, as it was in your video.

[@matheoovejero1072]

Great video!!

[@TheB1M]

Thanks!! 👍🙏

[@WrathofArminius]

I seriously love this channel. I marvel at the engineering… we humans pull off some amazing things.

[@leaderofthelewishpeople6382]

Could you talk about the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol in your next video? I heard it was one of the earliest suspension bridges built.

[@RonGerstein]

Currently, the 1915 Çanankkale Bridge in Turkey is the longest suspension bridge with a center span of 2023 metres (6637 ft).

[@PeterGaunt]

In light of the recent collapse of the motorway bridge in Italy (I felt uneasy on those bridges in 1972) it occurs to me to ask whether the original designers ever considered how to maintain their structures beyond their expected life span. The last bridge in your video is drop dead gorgeous and I know it's taken with a really wide angle lens but, hey, how do you fix it if the designer got it wrong or the contractors substituted cheaper materials? Love your channel intermittently - in another life I might have been a structural engineer.

[@mabamabam]

Great presenting.Youre getting really good at this

[@1trschaefer78]

Awesome video! Thanks!

[@aqusatabassumsyedsadiqueal5920]

I love your passion and devotion for your work. Would love to see more and more. Appreciate you from the core of my heart 💓

[@LexElls]

Great video man! Took me back to building bridges out of straws in elementary school

[@matteast1104]

The Humber Bridge is spectacular too.. just driven over it twice with my kids today! : The concrete towers are 155.5 metres (510 feet) tall and were built to be 36mm further apart from each other at the top than at the bottom, to allow for the curvature of the Earth. 30 metre clearance to water. There is enough wire used in the bridge to go around the Moon more than six times. 9 years to build, started 1971. Central span 1410m. Total 2.22 km single-span road suspension bridge, which opened to traffic on 24 June 1981.

Music is on point 👌🏼

[@marvelous1358]

I love this channel.

[@michaelmains6785]

Another great video. Keep it up.

[@bernardocaca8479]

Very nice I like bridge 👍🏼

[@JU5TINPDX]

3:34 I love these videos, and background music tracks like this one is a major reason. I would love to know the sources of music in your videos. A great video as usual!

[@SuperToastytoast]

Awesome video! But why didn't you recognize the Verrazano Narrows bridge being the longest suspension bridge in the United States. Instead the golden gate gets all the love.

[@GeorgeSargashian]

100%

[@BagoPorkRinds]

Isn't floating bridges also considered a category? Washington state has 4 of the world's longest floating bridges. Three of them are over Lake Washington. Two bridges of I-90 between Seattle and Mercer Island. Then there is the world's longest, the new Hwy 520 Evergreen Point replacing the old one between Seattle and Medina. The 4th spans between the Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas.

[@french1956]

A major omission. Thanks for the pointing that out. I was going to comment but you beat me to it. Also, can't forget the $4B price tag for the 520 span or that the 104 Hood Canal Floating Bridge is the longest over salt water with tidal variances of about eight feet. In addition, there's the STLink rail system being built on the I-90 HHM Floating Bridge which will be the first of its kind in the world where the tracks flex and slide during heavy weather or when Lake Washington is raised or lowered through the locks.

[@SteveCarras]

Sure are..I've been over ALL of the bridges mentioned..then the Hood canal bidge upstate of that. A real short one (seen in the 1963 all-star comedy "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World" with Jimmy Durante and the Three Stooges among virtually everyone) was in Long Beach untill 1968, when the arched Gerald Desmond bridge replaced it, and currently a cable stayed bridge is built to replace THAT. All of them built at time or another with the retractile draw span (a feature which with the bridge is mutally exclusive, there's swing span pontoons and non-pontoon retractile) in them.)

[@TheB1M]

We only looked at the 5 main categories, there are certainly more. As with elevated highways, which are supported by regular pylons along their route, we couldn't include floating bridges because they are primarily supported by the bridges buoyancy in water along their entire length. No way to measure its "longest continuous span".

[@french1956]

The SR 529 Floating Bridge is elevated 30-feet on pylons mounted on the pontoons, so the road deck is supported as like any other bridge. The bridge is 1.2 miles long and should be included in your survey.

[@JimmiAlli]

Thank you - very professional. What about Oresund?

[@samburkes7552]

..Didn't they(the Danes) complete that in sumner 2000?

[@videowilliams]

I guess the only superlative record the Sydney Harbour Bridge holds now is the number of fireworks blown off it at New Year's Eve! But I'm glad it got featured. Still one of those giant soul-of-the-city spans like San Francisco's Golden Gate or New York's Brooklyn Bridge. That longer, newer Chinese version leaves me cold.

[@wendystwitter7199]

No mention of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway? Or does that go along with the elevated highways that weren’t included? Bc the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest straight(continuous, uncurved) overwater bridge in the world. It starts slightly west of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and goes north over Lake Pontchartrain

[@crazy_lol3111]

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[@therosijedha]

There is a bridge between Lancaster County and York County in south-central Pennsylvania, but it doesn’t have anything other than a road and a short wall on the side. This bridge is a part of US 30.

[@necareon9557]

Does someone know the name of the last song that start's at 5:49?

[@jerrysstories711]

7:27 Jewel-hinged? WOW? Oh....

[@malik_alharb]

great video!

[@timothybrown8424]

Looks like the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, but bigger. Nice.

[@thwalesproductions]

Menai suspension bridge is wonderful, should have a video about most wonderful bridges

[@yaregalmengistie]

It really really beautiful presentation. you do have clear vidios. But, it may be much better if u add critical component, something special to that project or structure, video or photo. Thank for sharing ur view sir!

[@Sly88Frye]

I live 1 hour North of San Francisco and I find that suspension bridge in Japan that is the longest in the world that The Towers look very similar to the ones on the Bay Bridge. At least the ones on the old section of the Bay Bridge, as the new section of the Bay Bridge is modernized.

[@mehedihasan184]

I'm a great fan of you..... From Bangladesh... I always watch your videos

[@Irgendeindepp3]

Could you produce a video about the Marina One in Singapore? It's a damn great project.

[@TheB1M]

We have covered it on our website! www.theb1m.com/video/supergreen-tower-completes-in-singapore

[@philliplyn2692]

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@902Jr]

Excellent!

[@oddsandwindsocks5905]

You mentioned golden gate, but not our humber bridge, which was the longest in the world from 1981 to 1998, once that's Japan one was finished. Love the video.

[@gs032009]

Exactly. B1M's posture is: Pick and choose and spotlight what's convenient! If it's not mentioned, it doesn't exist. That's the mindset. How sad. There are at least ten bridges from Europe that should have bee mentioned and ranked, for their historical importance and record-breaking achievement at one particular moment in history.

[@SteveCarras]

Louisiana's world record-setting Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest over-water bridge in the world. 24 miles long, y'all..Red beans, rice, Louie Armstrong and Britney too!

[@randomchaos5139]

The Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is 102 miles long. Lake Pontchatrain is the longest in America.

[@jarls5890]

It may have been setting records at some point - but today there is at least 7 bridges that is longer than Lake PC. And none are in the US - 6 of those are in China in fact. Seems like y'all aint eating enough rice!

[@flighted2513]

and lake pc is a causeway which they said is not included.

[@malacki6554]

The Golden Gate Bridge And Brooklyn bridge are my favourite they just look so unique and aesthetically pleasing in their own designs.

[@TheB1M]

Agreed!

[@IvanPlayStation4LiFe]

But compare to Chinese and the new bridge in Crimea, Russia those look bad. And I use to live in Brooklyn for 20 years I know.

[@abdicherryt]

IvanPlayStation4LiFe Nobody asked

[@warrcoww6717]

The Verrazano can be a lot of fun to drive across in thick fog, normally you can see the entire city, so just seeing gray smoke is always weird

[@californiamade5608]

IvanPlayStation4LiFe yeah well the difference between those and the Chinese knock off ones, is the ones in China will never be as impressive or iconic considering the Golden Gate Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge were built in a time when no where else in the world has bridges of such designs and magnitude nor the technology to construct them. No Chinese Bridge will ever top that.

[@sumitjassal7556]

plz add names and location of the structure on each vdo. that would be great. thanks

[@sahilpathan7465]

What is the music piece that you used in 4:54? This music is so charming. I request you let me know about this music piece.

[@dojando6003]

Hey, can someone tell me what music was used at 5:50? :)

[@kishore369]

Enjoying your videos ! From India

[@SuperSirianRigel]

Question. Why were "elevated highways" not considered to be "bridges" in this list? I have always considered them to be bridges. Like the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. Even though it is called a "causeway" it is still elevated above the water for it's entire span. But anyways... Could you make a video including these? And maybe make a video in chronological order of the world's longest bridge starting with the very first true bridge?

[@serdarbayrakci7553]

Since today 18 march 2022 longest bridge with suspencion cables is in Turkiye Cannakkale 2023 meters

[@dcallan812]

surprised you left out the Tees Transporter Bridge, Middlesbrough as one of the oddest bridges.

[@TheB1M]

That is a wacky bridge! Maybe we need to do a video on craziest bridges???

[@dcallan812]

It is an odd bridge, you could do daft bridges and daft people. Terry Scott (actor) drove into without the gondola in place in March 1974 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tees_Transporter_Bridge.

[@ericgeorge5483]

That was fascinating, my fave bridge is the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, a true icon.

[@warrenwilson4818]

Absolutely! 19th C. engineering! Best seen in the great A, Hitchcock movie "The Thirty-Nine Steps." (the original b/w version.)

[@ericgeorge5483]

@@warrenwilson4818 Yes I've seen that movie and the bridge features as you rightly point out!

[@JonathonV]

You mentioned that the Sydney Harbour Bridge was the widest bridge in the world until 2012. Its record was taken by the new Port Mann Bridge near Vancouver, which also tied the record for the longest-cable-stayed bridge in North America. Unfortunately the widest bridge record didn't last long, because the Tahya Misr Bridge built in Egypt last year is wider.

[@simonlloyd7557]

The video has just started and Im here to see if the Lake Ponchartrain Bridge is here. I drove across it once and it was like being at sea.

[@pell5986]

there is a bridge in Denmark called “Storebæltsbroen” that is 6,79 km long.

[@CAsPeR697]

Jeg skulle lige til selv at skrive det

[@CAsPeR697]

There is actually two bridges connected to an island, with the longest of them being 6,79 km long and the other one being 6,611. There is also a tunnel

[@AeroInspire]

What about the confederation bridge connecting New Brunswick to PEI in Canada?

[@CarterDarrah]

I think it has too many supports and no single large span

[@AeroInspire]

@@CarterDarrah I agree. I feel like there should be 2 categories for bridge length, longest freestanding bridge (like this video), and longest continually supported bridge.

[@brosandshortfilms7647]

yeah, its way longer than all of the other bridges on this list

[@danielpatinogonzalez9342]

Very good!

[@George_Tate]

Where’s the Humber bridge? Wasn’t it at one point the largest cable suspension bridge in Europe? Should’ve got a mention IMO

[@lifeinsidekyoto6553]

I was on the train recently coming past the 明石海峡大橋 Akashi kaikyo bridge. It’s a sight to truly behold.

[@Bohemian0522]

No, the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge ( the one shown in the video ) does not carry railway. The one that you recently took on train was probably the Great Seto Bridge, also connecting the Honshu island and the Shikoku island, more specifically from Okayama to Kagawa.

[@lifeinsidekyoto6553]

神推しあしゅりん yes I know. I meant I could see the bridge from the JR line as I went past.

[@markleon411]

Surely the Ørresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden breaks some sort of record. Part bridge and part tunnel with a man made island to form the entrance to the tunnel, it's an extraordinary piece of engineering.

[@maximuslongrod6361]

That’s about 8 km. The confederation bridge in Canada is 13 km. Surprised neither of them made the cut in this video

[@jesKristensen]

Storebæltsbroen also in DK is longer

[@wwbaker3]

The World's longest floating bridge - Evergreen Point Floating Bridge in Seattle, WA, USA (2350m)

[@benjaminyang4638]

"Kiaotiamen Bridge" "Yangteeze River" Bruh, love your work, but you're killing me

[@madz_mitch]

Certainly didn't expect to see the Tyne Bridge in here, haha.

[@Wag2112]

The Mackinaw Bridge connecting the two peninsula's of Michigan is 5 miles overall - full mile center span .

[@banglavlogsbysaidurrahmans7287]

Very nice video

[@rozewiczd]

There is only one thing standing between this channel and perfection: pronunciation. Don't read foreign names like they were English words.

[@everythingbutthegirlfan762]

Chaotianmen was absolutely butchered. Doesn't need to be perfect, but at least get it close.

[@djtforever1414]

B1M reminds us how much they love the word "despite" at 3:25 and 4:14.

[@JaiBadrihvisal]

Nice video sir

[@geografisica]

Please consider the Rafael Urdaneta bridge in Maracaibo with more than 5 km length

[@10thdoctor15]

The Humber bridge was the longest suspension bridge from 1981 until the Kobe bridge was completed.

[@nipunfernando3668]

What was the first bridge seen at the start of the video?

[@markleon411]

Sydney Harbour Bridge was the longest single span bridge in the world for many years after its construction in the 1930s. Many lost their lives in its construction too.

[@lazerman121]

Yall need a followup video on the highest (from road deck to ground below not pylon) bridges in the world.

[@treypohe4593]

All this time and I thought the narration was an automated voice 🤯🤯🤯

[@255f145c15w]

Akashi Kaikyō Bridge - Beautiful, graceful structure! What happens when (not if) there's an earthquake which moves the towers apart now that the structure is complete. Hmmmmm?

[@paulovantini4827]

Estou gostando muito destas tecnologias estou encantado com a modernidade

[@paultauriainen]

The Port Mann Bridge in Greater Vancouver became the world's widest road bridge in 2012 beating the record of Sydney Harbour Bridge

[@TheB1M]

Yes it did! Well done!

[@fillup316]

and it got beat by the new oakland bay bridge.

[@taiket]

R.I.P The Great Belt Bridge in Denmark.. xD 6,790 metres

[@viktorveselinov2900]

damn thats long

[@desanipt]

They're counting the main span of the bridge.

[@jakobandersen3944]

Lol Lol No that is the Øresund Bridge. Plus most of that connection is on Denmark’s side.

[@adrianmccann7276]

Please do a video On Barangaroo in Sydney

[@tiekogalaxylatte8839]

Here in Portugal the Vasco da Gama bridge can be up to 17 km long if you count the viaduct portion.