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Pont De Normandie The Pont de Normandie is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the river Seine linking le Havre to Honfleur in northern France. It's 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 than the previous record. This record was lost in 1999 to the Tartara bridge in Japan. Structure The span, 23.60 m large is divided into 4 lanes for traffic and 2 lanes for pedestrians. The pylons, made of concrete are shapped as up side down Y. They weigh more than 20 000 tons and are 214.77 m tall.
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