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Longest Suspension Span Would Link Italy, Sicily
The Italian government plans a record setting suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina linking Italy and Sicily. The 9,000 foot span would carry rail and a six lane highway, rising about 230 feet above the water, with construction expected to take five to eight years and four towers towering over 1,250 feet. The project follows a long history of proposals since 1860, including various tunnel and tube concepts, and would connect rail and road traffic now ferried across the strait.
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Associated Press
Isis
Messina
Italy
Sicily
Empire State Building
New York
National Geographic Society
Syella
Charybbdis
Ulysses
Scylla
Charybdis
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Rome
University of
Turin
Spains
Plana
Cary