Rande Bridge

42 288 - 8.66Koordinaten: 42 ° 17 ' 16.8 " N, 8 ° 39' 36 " W

F1

Autopista AP -9 ( European Route 1)

Ría de Vigo

The Puente de Rande ( Spanish) or Ponte de Rande ( Galician ) is a cable-stayed bridge near Vigo in the Spanish region of Galicia places Redondela and Moaña connects and so the Ría de Vigo crosses, in 1702 the Battle of Vigo occurred.

The building was of engineers Fabrizio de Miranda, Florencio del Pozo ( who was also responsible for the establishment ) and Alfredo Passaro planned. Construction of the bridge began in 1978. Makes you a part of the toll Autopista del Atlántico (AP -9), which is a part of the European Route 1. Until 23 May 2006 fee has been charged for driving on the bridge, the toll charge was offset between Vigo and O Morrazo.

The building has a length of 1558 m, the pillars have a height of 118.6 m and the main range extends over 401 m. She was at the time of its opening not the cable-stayed bridge with the longest main span in the world, but then had the longest main span, which carries more than two lanes.

It is traveled by 50,000 cars daily. Since its opening to traffic more than 230 million vehicles have crossed at this point of the bay. The construction costs amounted to 3.658 trillion pesetas. These were generated several times through the toll.

The envisaged for 2008-2010 widening of the bridge was not carried out because of financing problems; but it was back in 2013 considered urgent.

Swell

• De Miranda F., A. Leone, A. Passaro, 1979, Il ponte strallato sullo stretto di edge presso Vigo, in: Costruzioni Metalliche, 2/ 1979.
• De Miranda F., 1980, I ponti di strallati grande luce, Zanichelli Bologna (I ), pp. 259-269.
• Puente de Rande. In: Structurae (English).