The Brăila Bridge ( ro, Podul peste Dunăre de la Brăila) is a road suspension bridge in

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over the

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river, between Brăila, a major city in eastern Romania, and the opposite bank of the river in

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, on the DN2S national road and

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. It is the first bridge over the maritime Danube sector and the fourth bridge over the Romanian section of the river. At nearly 2 km in length, it is the largest bridge over the Danube, and the third longest suspension bridge in the European Union. The bridge improves road traffic accessibility of the Galați-Brăila area to Constanța and

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, and connections of the

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and Muntenia regions with

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. The

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co-funded the project with €363 million from Cohesion Policy funds.

Construction

First studies for a bridge in the

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region were done in 1986, but the first prefeasibility study was conducted in 1996. The final feasibility study was finished in 2016 by and Pegaso Ingegneria. In 2017, the bridge project was awarded to the

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(now Webuild) and IHI Infrastructure Systems association for an estimated cost of

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434 million, and the construction works started in December 2018. In May 2021, the construction of the two main pillars had finished, and preparations had been started to deploy the first cables across the bridge. On 20 August 2021, it was reported that the construction of the bridge is on schedule and that half of the bridge was already done. The first of the 86 suspended segments of the roadway were installed in spring 2022, with the last one on 28 June 2022. The bridge was opened on 6 July 2023.

Specifications

The project consists of the construction of a suspension bridge of length with a main span, and two side spans of long on the Brăila bank of the river and long on the Tulcea bank of the river, two access viaducts of length on both sides (which bring the total length of the bridge to ), and a connecting road with a total length of approximately .Podul suspendat peste Dunare de la Braila – un proiect asteptat de peste 20 de ani

References

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Presentation Memo: Suspended bridge suspended over the Danube in the Brăila area
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Construction

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