The construction of third Bosporus suspension bridge which is called as the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge is going to final stage to serve for both rail and motor vehicles
The construction of third Bosporus suspension bridge is going to final stage. Composing 59 segments, 30th segment of the third suspension bridge is being mounted. Also 30 percent of the viaducts of connection highways of the bridge have been completed. Once the bridge enters service together with connection roads the traffic in Istanbul will ease in a great deal. The suspension bridge segments that weigh 923 tons being brought to the bridge via seaway and raised up by crane and then mounted. 108 of 176 rope hangers, which carry the bridge segments, have been also mounted. The bridge will have a combination of road-rail Bridge. The bridge will be the longest bridge of the world with 1458 meters in basic span length with 322 meters height. Having 59 meters width with 8 lanes, the third bridge also has two lanes for railway. Totally having 64 viaducts, 17 of them have been built. The bridge is part of the projected 260 km (160 mi) long Northern Marmara Motorway (Turkish: Kuzey Marmara Otoyolu), which will bypass urban areas of Istanbul in the north connecting Kınalı, Silivri in the west and Paşaköy, Hendek in the east. The 58.4 m (192 ft) wide bridge will be 2,164 m (7,100 ft) in length with a main span of 1,458 m. When completed, the Third Bosporus Bridge will be the longest combined motorway/railway bridge in the world and the world’s eighth-longest suspension bridge. The Third Bosporus Bridge which is named as the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge (Turkish: Yavuz Sultan Selim Köprüsü), is a project being constructed as a bridge for both rail and motor vehicles transit over the Bosporus, north of two existing bridges in Istanbul, Turkey. The bridge will be situated between Garipçe in Sarıyer on the European side and Poyrazköy in Beykoz on the Asian side. The foundation stone laying ceremony was held on 29 May 2013.