Pontoon bridge is the only term I am familiar with for such bridges.
On September 2, 2014 9:55:00 AM CDT, Clifford Snow <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Here in Western Washington we call them pontoons. See
> http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR520/Pontoons.htm
>
> We've never properly tagged the bridge type but they are pontoons.
> These
> pontoons do not look like the wiki picture, but are big boxes which
> are
> anchored to the lake/ocean floor.
>
> BTW - these are large, multilane structures with no sense of sway,
> except
> in the most extreme weather. And then they close the bridge.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > 2014-09-02 16:14 GMT+02:00 Volker Schmidt <[email protected]>:
> >
> > Wikipedia does not agree with Martin:
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontoon_bridge
> >>
> >
> >
> > it depends on the language ;-)
> >
> > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponton
> >
> > cheers,
> > Martin
> >
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