Patras By Air - The Rio-Antirio Bridge.

Some aerial photography of the Rio Antirio Bridge.

Trivia: The bridge  has a length of 2252 meters - 1.4 miles - (2882 meters - 1.8 miles - including the access bridges); as it consists entirely of five cable-stayed spans and four pylons, and it is one of the world's longest cable-stayed suspended decks. Its width is 28 meters (95 feet) -- it has two vehicle lanes per direction, an emergency lane and a pedestrian walkway. It's longest span is 560 meters (1,800 feet).

This bridge is widely considered to be an engineering masterpiece owing to several solutions applied to span the difficult site. These difficulties include deep water, insecure sea bottom materials for foundations, seismic activity and the probability of tsunamis, and the 30 mm (1.2 inch) per year expansion of the Gulf of Corinth due to plate tectonics.

For more details visit: www.gefyra.gr Click on English, The Bridge, Then click on This link that will redirect you to the previous version of our website, where you can find information about the construction of the Bridge. From this new page click on Work Progress. You have to follow this link sequence because of frames, etc.

Last Site Update: 12/5/2017
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