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WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels

Shortcuts	WP:BRIDGE, WP:TUNNEL
Category	WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels
Portals	Transport  Architecture
Wikimedia Commons	Bridges
Parent project(s)	Architecture, Civil engineering, Transport
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels|class=|importance=}}
Userbox	{{User bridges}}
Has goals?	Yes
Assessment	Wikipedia:WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels/Assessment
Popular pages	Wikipedia:WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels/Popular pages

Welcome to WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels.

• Goals: To increase the number and quality of articles about bridges and tunnels, improve their formatting and language, add references and media, and increase standardization.

• Scope: This project is related to articles about specific bridges and tunnels, types of bridges and tunnels, lists of bridges and tunnels, bridge and tunnel categorization, and related templates.

If you would like to help, check the to do list or articles needing attention. Feel free to include yourself to the list of participants.

• WikiProject Architecture
• WikiProject Civil engineering
• WikiProject Transport

Template for members to include on their user page: {{WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels}}; or Use the following on your userbox form to show you are part of this project:

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{{User bridges}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels.

The template to place on an article's talk page (pretty basic) is {{WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels}}.

• For a Start quality article, use {{WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels|class=Start|importance=}}.
• For a list of bridges and tunnels, use {{WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels|class=list|importance=}}.

Class and importance guidelines are shown on the Assessment page.

• Acroterion (talk · contribs) Mainly listings on the NRHP
• Advanstra (talk · contribs) Australia and elsewhere (e.g. Ted Smout Memorial Bridge)
• amiaheroyet (talk · contribs)
• Blanchardb (talk · contribs) - I will maintain lists of bridges in Quebec (esp. Montreal) and will gather and update as much information as I can about individual bridges. Expect me to add a few pictures (taken by myself) as well.
• BridgeHistorian1896 (talk · contribs) - Mainly bridges on the inland waterways of the United States.
• Bogger (talk · contribs) - Ireland
• Cacophony (talk · contribs)
• Canton Viaduct (talk · contribs) Specializing in stone viaducts
• Chongkian (talk · contribs) - Interested in bridges and tunnels in Taiwan
• Cryptic Scripture (talk · contribs)
• Daniel Case (talk · contribs) I write about enough bridges through my work at WP:NRHP and WP:NYSR, so I might as well be part of this project.
• Denimadept (talk · contribs) - images of, and articles for, bridges.
• Don Braffitt (talk · contribs)
• DoubleYouGTT (talk · contribs)
• Elizabeth Linden Rahway (talk · contribs) bridges in Chicago, Pennsylvania, Texas, especially railroad; lists
• Epicgenius (talk · contribs) - Bridges and tunnels in the US
• Ferroequus (talk · contribs) Railroad bridges, trestles and viaducts are my area of focus.
• Flying Stag (talk · contribs) Bridges primarily in the UK
• Garyvines (talk · contribs) Bridges in victoria, Australia, as well as bridge engineers
• Ghirla (talk · contribs), responsible for all the stuff contained in Category:Bridges in Russia
• HJ Mitchell (talk · contribs), mostly interested in mediaeval bridges and railway viaducts in England
• IntrigueBlue (talk · contribs) will lend a hand with editing/clarifying, despite knowing nothing about anything.
• Interstate 11 (talk · contribs) I will make minor edits to U.S. Automobile bridges. So far, I have made edits to both Gerald Desmond Bridge (1968-2020) and Gerald Desmond Bridge (2020-present), which has recently been split into the way it is.
• James_Shelton32 (talk · contribs) - Former Railroad Bridges in Virginia.
• jay8g (talk · contribs)
• Jklamo (talk · contribs) - lists, bridges in Europe, China, Flickr image-digging
• Kgbo (talk · contribs) - Bridges in Australia and in Poland, in English and in Polish
• kwameghana (talk · contribs) Will help with articles on bridges from Africa
• Lar (talk · contribs) will help out when he can.
• Leonard G. (talk · contribs)
• Lpangelrob (talk · contribs) – associated with Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago, Illinois bridges
• MajorScafellPike (talk · contribs) Predominantly UK railway/canal bridges/viaducts/tunnels
• Mario1987 (talk · contribs)
• MetroFan2009 (talk · contribs)
• Mooshykris (talk · contribs)
• Myselfalso (talk · contribs)
• naipicnirp (talk · contribs) Bridges in and around Chicago
• PennySpender1983 (talk · contribs)
• Peterlewis (talk · contribs) Bridge accidents and disasters!
• Ruhrfisch (talk · contribs) - mostly covered or historic bridges
• S charette (talk · contribs)
• Sam (talk · contribs) - mostly suspension bridges.
• Sanibel sun (talk · contribs) - Mostly cover bridges in Southwest Florida, mostly Fort Myers
• Scillystuff (talk · contribs) - Pittsburgh bridges.
• Seth Whales (talk · contribs) Bridges in the UK generally.
• ShakyIsles (talk · contribs) - Chinese and New Zealand bridges
• Shari Garland (talk · contribs) - Bridges of Saint Petersburg, Russia
• SpringBliss (talk · contribs)
• Stuffed cat (talk · contribs) Interested in the bridges of Tees Valley - eleven so far
• Tatiraju.rishabh (talk · contribs) Articles like Godavari Bridge, Godavari Arch Bridge and Old Godavari Bridge
• That guy who plays games (talk · contribs) - coyediting, merging of parallel/independently unnotable bridges, famous or demolished bridges
• The Bushranger (talk · contribs) - northwest Florida bridges, primarily
• ThunderFan109 (talk · contribs) any bridges in New York and Portland.
• Tomobe03 (talk · contribs) - bridges in Croatia
• TransporterMan (talk · contribs) Have particular interest in transporter, steel truss, cable-stayed, and ribbon bridges.
• Trulystand700 (talk · contribs) Bridges
• Ullpianissimo (talk · contribs) primary area of interest is the Ohio River Valley and its tributaries, ranging northward into Michigan
• VerruckteDan (talk · contribs)
• Vishwin60 (talk · contribs) - anywhere, anytime I can.
• WikiLeon (talk · contribs)
• 千里走单骑 (talk · contribs)

• Expand the guidelines for bridge and tunnel articles
• Nominate articles for good or featured status
• Add {{Infobox bridge}} or {{Infobox tunnel}} to articles
• Standardize categorization for bridges – discuss on the talk page
• Add introductory paragraphs to bridge and tunnel category pages (defining the category)
• Update the List of bridges in the United States with info from Cat:Bridges in the US
• Add latitude and longitude information to articles (see WP:GEO)
• Expand Category:Bridge (structure) stubs and Category:Tunnel stubs articles
• List of crossings of the Shannon

The basic Wiki guidelines should be followed normally. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Pulaski Skyway serve as good models.

Introduction

The introduction sentence should include what type of bridge or tunnel it is, what it crosses (river, canyon, etc.), and where it is located:

'''Bridge''' is a [[bridge type]] that spans [[body of water or land]] between [[city, state]], and [[city, state]]. (Notable information here, e.g., if it's the oldest/tallest/largest of its type). It was built in [[year]] by [[agency responsible for construction]] and was designed by [[notable engineer or firm]].

Images and media

Please upload media to Wikimedia Commons so that it can be used across all Wikipedia projects easily. If there are many pictures a gallery at the bottom of the page is an option to consider.

Infoboxes and templates

• {{Infobox bridge}} and {{Infobox tunnel}} are the preferred templates for individual structures and work best for users if placed at the top of the page. Refer to the template pages for detailed instructions.
• {{Infobox bridge type}} should be used for bridge design types.

Categorization

The article should be included in the category for the type of bridge that it is (example Category:Suspension bridges). It should also contain a category based on location, such as Category:Bridges in New York (state)

There has been much discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorization and on this talk page about the best way to organize articles within categories. For this project we will place all bridge articles in a category based on location (by nation for countries not yet with a lot of bridge articles where subdivision hasn't happened (Category:Bridges in Japan), or small countries with relatively few bridges (Category:Bridges in Singapore)), or states/provinces for larger countries (Category:Bridges in New York (state)). If these categories are further divided amongst subcategories, the articles will remain included within the larger category (For example: all the bridges in Category:Toll bridges in New York (state) and Category:Bridges in New York City will be included in Category:Bridges in New York (state)). This makes the category pages the easiest to navigate at the price of adding slightly redundant categories on the individual articles. This has been found to be the best solution until MetaWiki supports the inclusion of subcategory articles within parent category pages.

Why write an article about this bridge or tunnel?

A good article should contain as much of the following, and more, as possible:

• WHAT is this bridge or tunnel?
• How long/wide/high/tall is it?
• What sort of construction is it? (See bridge types, below.) Made of what? Concrete, steel, wood, stone, reinforced styrofoam?
• When was it built?
• Why was it built?
• Who built it?
• Who designed it?
• What precedes it? That is, were there any previous bridges on that site? Maybe a ferry?
• What context is it in? Any history? Battles, political or otherwise? Other events?
• What kind of effort went into it?
• How much did it cost?
• Is or was there anything special about its design, location, circumstances, paint color, or manner of failure or destruction?
• What does it carry? Roads? Railroads? People? Elephants? How many elephants?
• Does it move? Intentionally? How so?
• Provide a picture! Or several!
• What are its coordinates?
• What makes it worth an article?

The more you can put into an article, the more references (more references mean more people care), the more data in general, the less susceptible to AfD the article is.

Popular pages

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels/Popular pages

Specific bridges

• Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge is an article I've only just created and is the world's largest cable bridge. I've done what I can with it, with the limited information I could find.
• Mountain Creek Lake Bridge was copied from an external source and needs to be rewritten.
• Niagara Cantilever Bridge Needs review. I expanded it a lot but it still could use more work. ++Lar 05:06, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Bridges in Peoria, Illinois should be renamed List of bridges in Peoria, Illinois, and the the page layout adjusted accordingly (and with new articles for individual bridges, if appropriate).
• Triborough Bridge needs to be reworked, possibly to include 3 infoboxes, more images, diagrams, etc.
• Hampton Bridge is marked with a cleanup template
• Schwandbach Bridge, new article, would really benefit from a photo
• Ikitsuki Bridge needs to be improved more that way it becomes more notable
• Amelia Earhart Bridge has been demolished and replaced by a new bridge with the same name. Article needs info on new bridge (or new article about new bridge).
• Lake Barkley Bridge is a newly approved article I made and is only start class. It could use a photo. Ullpianissimo (talk) 01:38, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Sotra Bridge has a ten-year old referencing error.

See the list of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks at the ASCE Civil Engineering historic landmark list (also at List of historic civil engineering landmarks); the bridges below don't have articles yet, unless they're here under another name:

• Bridges of Niagara
• Fink Deck Truss Bridge
• Fink Through Truss Bridge
• Missouri River Bridges (Chamberlain, South Dakota)
• Sewall's Bridge
• Whipple Bowstring Truss Bridge

Since these bridges are listed as Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks, they're probably noteworthy enough to deserve articles.

Now-demolished bridges

Bridges that were landmarks in their time but are now gone, but which heartily deserve articles.

• Lansdowne Bridge over the Indus, the longest cantilever bridge when built (and the ugliest!) – exists as Lansdowne Bridge Rohri
• Buildwas Bridge, Telford's major cast iron structure

Bridge engineers

• Joseph Chaley – important pioneer of the wire cable suspension bridge
• Guillaume Henri Dufour – suspension bridge pioneer, but article barely mentions his bridge works
• James Finley (engineer) – more detail to be added
• Ulrich Finsterwalder – cable-stay and post-tensioning pioneer
• Louis Harper – needs a photo
• Jean-Rodolphe Perronet – French engineer who advanced masonry arches considerably
• David Rowell & Co. – needs a photo
• Marc Seguin – needs amendments and expansion on suspension bridges
• Jiri Strasky – Czech developer of stressed-ribbon bridge concept
• Eduardo Torroja – famous Spanish structural engineer
• Squire Whipple – stub, would benefit from expansion

• Portal:Bridges Presentation of some of its sections.
• Washington Bridge (Connecticut) – Request for rating on importance & quality scale. — Importance done, still needs quality review.
• John H. Cocke Memorial Bridge - Tagged as not notable--Dthomsen8 (talk) 01:06, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Alte_Brücke_(Frankfurt) Needs assessment, please. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:25, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Charlestown Bridge → North Washington Street Bridge (Boston)
  North Washington Street Bridge → North Washington Street Bridge (DeWitt, Arkansas)
  There is a move discussion requiring more participation. Please consider commenting/voting in it. —Davidpward (talk) 16:49, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Schuylkill River Crossing Complex AfD?

• Pghbridges.com (external link) – good for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area
• bridges.midwestplaces.com Historic Bridges of the Midwest – Good for bridges anywhere in the US Midwest
• historicbridges.org Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere – Good for bridges in the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Ontario.
• Structurae.de (external link) – Structurae: International Database and Gallery of Structures – largest bridge database on-line
• Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey, source of photos and info
• Historic Bridges of the United States – limited and error-ridden, but potentially useful
• Covered Spans of Yesteryear – present and former covered wooden truss bridges in the United States and Canada
• Bridgemeister: Mostly Suspension Bridges – an attempt "to catalogue as many suspension bridges as possible" with thorough documentation of references

Bridge and Tunnel articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	10	14			26
FL			2				2
GA	1	7	26	56			90
B	10	20	59	131		2	222
C	9	27	115	530		25	706
Start	7	63	325	2,601		64	3,060
Stub	1	26	169	3,027		91	3,314
List	4	29	55	325	1	2	416
Category				2	2,452		2,454
Disambig					129		129
File					44		44
Project					7		7
Template					164		164
NA		2	5	57	176		240
Other					6		6
Assessed	32	176	766	6,743	2,979	184	10,880
Unassessed				3	2	114	119
Total	32	176	766	6,746	2,981	298	10,999
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 38,848			Ω = 5.24

Featured content

Featured articles

There are 15 Bridge FAs (see Category:FA-Class Bridge articles), one former bridge FA, and one tunnel FA:

• San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (formerly featured)

Featured lists

• List of bridges to the Island of Montreal
• List of largest suspension bridges (formerly featured)
• List of Seattle bridges

Featured pictures

• 
  The Sydney Harbour Bridge
• 
  London Millennium Bridge
• 
  Tower Bridge at night
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  Alcántara Bridge, Spain
• 
  The bridge over the River Rhône at Avignon
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  The Golden Gate Bridge in fog
• 
  Tower Bridge in Sacramento, California
• 
  Second Severn Crossing between England and Wales
• 
  Milwaukee Art Museum
• 
  Dom Luís Bridge, Porto, Portugal
• 
  Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, Germany
• 
  Mezcala Bridge, Mexico
• 
  Manhattan Bridge Construction
• Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse
• 
  Lewis and Clark Bridge, between Oregon and Washington

Wikimedia Commons Picture of the day

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  Passy Viaduct Paris, France
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  Vaalankurkku railway bridge
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  Tsurumi Tsubasa Bridge
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  Quebec Bridge at night