This is a vertical lift road bridge in Bordeaux, crossing the Garonne.

• 575 metres long and 77 metres high
• Tallest lift bridge in Europe – 110m lift takes the tallest ships
• Length of lifting span: 117m
• Completed in 2013
• 36 months to build
• It is a road bridge, not a cycle/pedestrian bridge
• 4 traffic lanes, 2 monorail tracks and 2 sidewalk/bikeways. It is massive!
• 45,000 cars a day

Here is another example of a massive road/rail bridge of comparable/greater size costing less than ¼ the worst case estimate for our lightweight pedestrian/cycle bridge!

Relative lengths:

• The span across the River Garonne at that point is 412m
• The span of the Thames from Durrands park to Westferry is approximately 410m
• The span of the Thames on the TfL proposed Northern route is only 260m