The Third Millennium John Paul II Bridge is a cable-stayed

road bridge A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...

which spans the

Martwa Wisła The Martwa Wisła (; german: Tote Weichsel; both literally "dead Vistula") is a river, one of the branches of the Vistula, flowing through the city of Gdańsk in northern Poland. It got its name when this branch of the river became increasingly ...

River in Gdańsk,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

The bridge forms an inverted “Y”-shape with a 100-metre-tall pylon. Until

Rędziński Bridge The Rędziński Bridge ( pl, Most Rędziński) is a cable-stayed bridge spanning the Oder river in Wrocław, Poland. As a section of the A8 motorway bypassing the center of Wroclaw, the bridge links both sections of the route across the Oder, pr ...

was opened on the 31 August 2011, it used to be the longest

cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, normally forming a fan-like pattern ...

in Poland supported by a single pylon. The bridge links the Northern

Port of Gdańsk The Port of Gdańsk is a seaport located on the southern coast of Gdańsk Bay in the city of Gdańsk, extending along the Vistula estuary Martwa Wisła (Dead Vistula), Port Channel and Kashubia Canal. It is one of the largest seaports on the ...

with the national road network and is the first section of the future by-pass road of the city of Gdańsk.

References

External links

Third Millennium John Paul II Bridge in Structurae database
Bridges in Gdańsk Road bridges in Poland Cable-stayed bridges in Poland Bridges completed in 2001 Buildings and structures celebrating the third millennium Pope John Paul II {{Vistula