Wikipedia:WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels

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.

Parent projects

 * WikiProject Architecture
 * WikiProject Civil engineering
 * WikiProject Transport

Membership template
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:

Article template
The template to place on an article's talk page (pretty basic) is WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels. Class and importance guidelines are shown on the Assessment page.
 * For a Start quality article, use.
 * For a list of bridges and tunnels, use.

Participants
]] complete equipment thats great to work bridge and tunnel. 11:36, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Mainly listings on the NRHP
 * Australia and elsewhere (e.g. Ted Smout Memorial Bridge)
 * - 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.
 * - Mainly bridges on the inland waterways of the United States.
 * - Ireland
 * Specializing in stone viaducts
 * - Interested in bridges and tunnels in Taiwan
 * I write about enough bridges through my work at WP:NRHP and WP:NYSR, so I might as well be part of this project.
 * - images of, and articles for, bridges.
 * bridges in Chicago, Pennsylvania, Texas, especially railroad; lists
 * - Bridges and tunnels in the US
 * Railroad bridges, trestles and viaducts are my area of focus.
 * Bridges primarily in the UK
 * Bridges in victoria, Australia, as well as bridge engineers
 * , responsible for all the stuff contained in Category:Bridges in Russia
 * , mostly interested in mediaeval bridges and railway viaducts in England
 * will lend a hand with editing/clarifying, despite knowing nothing about anything.
 * 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.
 * - Former Railroad Bridges in Virginia.
 * - lists, bridges in Europe, China, Flickr image-digging
 * - Bridges in Australia and in Poland, in English and in Polish
 * Will help with articles on bridges from Africa
 * will help out when he can.
 * – associated with WikiProject Chicago, Illinois bridges
 * Predominantly UK railway/canal bridges/viaducts/tunnels
 * Bridges in and around Chicago
 * Bridge accidents and disasters!
 * - mostly covered or historic bridges
 * - mostly suspension bridges.
 * - Mostly cover bridges in Southwest Florida, mostly Fort Myers
 * - Pittsburgh bridges.
 * Bridges in the UK generally.
 * - Chinese and New Zealand bridges
 * - Bridges of Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * Interested in the bridges of Tees Valley - eleven so far
 * Articles like Godavari Bridge, Godavari Arch Bridge and Old Godavari Bridge
 * - coyediting, merging of parallel/independently unnotable bridges, famous or demolished bridges
 * - northwest Florida bridges, primarily
 * any bridges in New York and Portland.
 * - bridges in Croatia
 * Have particular interest in transporter, steel truss, cable-stayed, and ribbon bridges.
 * Bridges
 * primary area of interest is the Ohio River Valley and its tributaries, ranging northward into Michigan
 * - anywhere, anytime I can.
 * 🥒 BONTENGERS  🥒 (🔔) with strong  [[Construction#References|construction
 * - Chinese and New Zealand bridges
 * - Bridges of Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * Interested in the bridges of Tees Valley - eleven so far
 * Articles like Godavari Bridge, Godavari Arch Bridge and Old Godavari Bridge
 * - coyediting, merging of parallel/independently unnotable bridges, famous or demolished bridges
 * - northwest Florida bridges, primarily
 * any bridges in New York and Portland.
 * - bridges in Croatia
 * Have particular interest in transporter, steel truss, cable-stayed, and ribbon bridges.
 * Bridges
 * primary area of interest is the Ohio River Valley and its tributaries, ranging northward into Michigan
 * - anywhere, anytime I can.
 * 🥒 BONTENGERS  🥒 (🔔) with strong  [[Construction#References|construction
 * - anywhere, anytime I can.
 * 🥒 BONTENGERS  🥒 (🔔) with strong  [[Construction#References|construction
 * 🥒 BONTENGERS  🥒 (🔔) with strong  [[Construction#References|construction
 * 🥒 BONTENGERS  🥒 (🔔) with strong  [[Construction#References|construction

To do

 * 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

Guidelines
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: 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.
 * 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?

Categories

 * Category:Bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Lists of bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Bridges by country (Recent changes)
 * Category:Bridges by year of completion (Recent changes)
 * Category:Bridges under construction (Recent changes)
 * Category:Bridges with buildings (Recent changes)
 * Category:Arch bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Deck arch bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Through arch bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Bascule bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Cable-stayed bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Cantilever bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Covered bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Bridge disasters (Recent changes)
 * Category:Footbridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Proposed bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Pontoon bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Railway bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Self-anchored suspension bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Skew bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Suspension bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Swing bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Toll bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Truss bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Transporter bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Tubular bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Vertical lift bridges (Recent changes)
 * Category:Viaducts (Recent changes)

Lists

 * Category:Lists of bridges
 * Category:Lists of tunnels


 * List of bridges
 * List of bridges by length
 * List of arch bridges by length
 * List of bridge failures
 * List of bridge–tunnels
 * List of highest bridges in the world
 * List of largest suspension bridges
 * List of largest cable-stayed bridges
 * List of longest tunnels
 * List of bridges in Canada
 * List of bridges in China
 * List of bridges and tunnels in Dubai
 * List of tunnels and bridges in Hong Kong
 * List of bridges in Hungary
 * List of bridges in Norway
 * List of bridges in Singapore
 * List of bridges in Turkey
 * List of bridges in the United Kingdom
 * List of bridges in the United States
 * List of bridges and tunnels in New York City
 * List of tunnels by location

Articles (bridge types)

 * Arch bridge
 * Aqueduct
 * Bailey bridge
 * Bascule bridge
 * Beam bridge
 * Box girder bridge
 * Bridge
 * Cable-stayed bridge
 * Caisson
 * Cantilever bridge
 * Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge
 * Clapper bridge
 * Covered bridge
 * Curling bridge
 * Drawbridge
 * Extradosed bridge (IMAGE NEEDED)
 * Folding bridge
 * Girder bridge
 * Inca rope bridge
 * Jetway
 * Lattice truss bridge
 * Log bridge
 * Mabey Logistic Support Bridge or Mabey-Johnson Bridge
 * Moon bridge
 * Packhorse bridge
 * Plate girder bridge
 * Pontoon bridge
 * Retractable bridge (Thrust bridge)
 * Self-anchored suspension bridge
 * Segmental bridge
 * Side-spar cable-stayed bridge
 * Simple suspension bridge
 * Skew arch bridge
 * Step-stone bridge
 * Stressed ribbon bridge
 * Submersible bridge
 * Suspension bridge
 * Swing bridge
 * Tied-arch bridge
 * Tilt bridge
 * Through arch bridge
 * Toll bridge
 * Transporter bridge
 * Trestle
 * Truss arch bridge
 * Truss bridge
 * Tubular bridge
 * Vertical-lift bridge
 * Viaduct
 * Vierendeel bridge
 * Weigh bridge
 * Zig-zag bridge

Popular pages

 * WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels/Popular pages

Specific bridges
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:
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * Sotra Bridge has a ten-year old referencing error.
 * 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

Pages needing attention
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)
 * 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)
 * Alte_Brücke_(Frankfurt) Needs assessment, please. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:25, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Charlestown Bridge → North Washington Street Bridge (Boston)
 * Schuylkill River Crossing Complex AfD?

Useful websites

 * 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

Featured content

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


 * Albert Bridge, London
 * BP Pedestrian Bridge
 * Battersea Bridge
 * Chelsea Bridge
 * Cogan House Covered Bridge
 * Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel
 * Forksville Covered Bridge
 * Hillsgrove Covered Bridge
 * Kinzua Bridge
 * Monnow Bridge
 * Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge
 * Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3
 * Pulaski Skyway
 * Richmond Bridge, London
 * Sonestown Covered Bridge
 * Vauxhall Bridge


 * 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