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Danube Crossing: The four bridges are eventually connected!

  • The bridges have been built with one of the biggest movable scaffolding system technology available today
  • Almost 3km crossing and more than 110,000 m³ of concrete
  • The construction of D4R7 is the biggest infrastructure project in Slovakia

Danube crossing in D4 includes four bridges connected to each other: The Western approach (length 785 m) – over Jarovecké rameno, the bridge over the Kayak track (470 m), the bridge over the Danube (430 m) and the Eastern approach (1250 m), over Biskupické rameno. The last two mentioned bridges are currently connected.

Almost 3km crossing, 35m deck width, around 100 000 m², more than 110,000 m³ of concrete, 40.000Tn reinforcement, 4.000Tn prestressed steel, all together to build Eastern approach (18 segments- regular 70m span), Western approach ( 12 segments- regular span 67.5 m), Danube bridge (130m+170m+130m), Kayak bridge (130m+210m+130m).