Surprising Facts About Bridges That You May Don’t Know
                     Surprising Facts About 
Bridges That You May Don’t 
Know
An Overview
Undeniably, bridges are a critical component of a country’s 
infrastructure making it possible to ship raw materials and goods 
to warehouses, factories, distributors, suppliers, end-consumers, 
and stores. 
Apart from this, bridges also facilitate travel making it easier for 
consumers to buy services and goods from anywhere they want. 
There are 600,000 bridges in America. Some of them are 
privately owned bridges too. Well, in comparison to other 
countries across the world, the United States has few privately 
owned bridges. 
Public-private partnership is new in America. According to this 
agreement, bridge infrastructure companies invest 
private bridge capital for solving the infrastructure crisis in the 
United States.
Let’s Dive Into Some Surprising Facts About 
Bridges That You May Don’t Know:
01 Some Bridges Go Nowhere
02 Bridges Can Be Eco-Friendly
03 Bridges Can Be Made from Glass 
Some Bridges Go Nowhere
Clearly, there are many bridges across the world that move 
consumer goods, utility services, and commuters from one place 
to another. Surprisingly, there are some bridge structures that 
absolutely go nowhere.
Wondering, why?
There can be many reasons like they have never completed, 
they are defunct bridges, or they are not designed to commute. 
The bridge near Castrop-Rauxel, Germany is one of the biggest 
examples of such bridges.
Bridges Can Be Eco-Friendly
Engineers develop bridges 
implementing advanced 
technologies and construction 
techniques. However, in some cases, 
the objective of developing a bridge 
is to protect or maintain a fragile 
ecosystem. 
These are bridges are architecturally 
amazing. The Kurilpa Bridge in 
Brisbane, Langkawi Sky Bridge in 
Malaysia are examples of 
environment-friendly bridges.
Bridges Can Be Made from Glass 
You may have seen many videos 
having glass bridges. Well, that’s 
true. There are some bridges that are 
made up of glass. 
The longest and highest glass-
bottomed bridge was built in China. 
The bridge is suspended more than 
1,400 feet and is about 1,000 feet 
long.
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