Talk:Howrah Bridge

Question
is the howrah bridge retractable?

No

Image
Any one have a picture of the newly illuminated bridge? Pls add. Amartyabag  TALK2ME  13:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Bridge width
In the text the width is stated as 97 meters, when it is in fact 97 feet. Please correct the mistake.

Cattle no more travels on the bridge. It used to in the past. Please incorporate the same.

Busiest in the world?
Nope. The GWB in New York City carries roughly twice as much traffic. I'm removing that from the photo caption. Also, the 59th St. Bridge, also in NYC, carries more traffic and is also a cantilever bridge. Let's try to find some citations for calling the Howrah Bridge the "busiest". Ayengar (talk) 00:55, 21 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge also carries more vehicles. And I SERIOUSLY DOUBT that four million pedestrians cross the bridge every day. Is that done in the two fifteen-foot wide sidewalks on the bridge? A credible reference is needed for this claim. - SCgatorFan (talk) 00:40, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I counted people one day on the southern (busier) side at about 9am and came up with not more than one person per second over the course of a minute. Assuming that this ridiculously heavy volume is sustained for 24hrs (and it is not, because I was there at less busy times, too) you would still only get around 1.7mil per day. If you count all the people on the busses that pass over the bridge, then you might get closer. But 4mil do NOT walk across the bridge in a day.

Blacklisted Links Found on the Main Page
Cyberbot II has detected that page contains external links that have either been globally or locally blacklisted. Links tend to be blacklisted because they have a history of being spammed, or are highly innappropriate for Wikipedia. This, however, doesn't necessarily mean it's spam, or not a good link. If the link is a good link, you may wish to request whitelisting by going to the request page for whitelisting. If you feel the link being caught by the blacklist is a false positive, or no longer needed on the blacklist, you may request the regex be removed or altered at the blacklist request page. If the link is blacklisted globally and you feel the above applies you may request to whitelist it using the before mentioned request page, or request its removal, or alteration, at the request page on meta. When requesting whitelisting, be sure to supply the link to be whitelisted and wrap the link in nowiki tags. The whitelisting process can take its time so once a request has been filled out, you may set the invisible parameter on the tag to true. Please be aware that the bot will replace removed tags, and will remove misplaced tags regularly.

Below is a list of links that were found on the main page:


 * http://www.roadtraffic-technology.com/projects/howrahbridge/
 * Triggered by  on the local blacklist

If you would like me to provide more information on the talk page, contact User:Cyberpower678 and ask him to program me with more info.

From your friendly hard working bot.— cyberbot II NotifyOnline 11:55, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

✅ This issue has been resolved, and I have therefore removed the tag, if not already done. No further action is necessary.— cyberbot II NotifyOnline 20:20, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 18:21, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Coordinate error
The following coordinate fixes are needed for

—49.200.11.102 (talk) 11:23, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
 * You haven't explained what you think to be erroneous, and the coordinates in the article appear to be basically correct (I've tweaked them slightly). If you still think that there is a error, please give a clear explanation of what it is, removing "tlc|" from the template above. Deor (talk) 17:48, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Howrah Bridge. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20111028120359/http://www.mapsofindia.com/kolkata/howrah-bridge.html to http://www.mapsofindia.com/kolkata/howrah-bridge.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 17:22, 7 November 2017 (UTC)