Humber Bridge
Humber Bridge | |
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The Humber Bridge, Lincolnshire/East Yorkshire | |
| Coordinates | 53°42′23″N 0°27′00″W / 53.7064°N 0.4500°W |
| Carries | 4 lanes of motor traffic (A15), pedestrian- cycle-way either side |
| Crosses | Humber |
| Locale | Hessle, East Riding of Yorkshire/North Lincolnshire |
| Maintained by | The Humber Bridge Board |
| Heritage status | Grade I listed |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Suspension |
| Total length | 2,220 m (7,280 ft; 1.38 mi) |
| Width | 28.5 m (94 ft) |
| Height | 155.5 m (510 ft) |
| Longest span | 1,410 m (4,630 ft; 0.88 mi) |
| History | |
| Fabrication by | Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company |
| Construction cost | £98,000,000 £151,000,000 including interest at completion |
| Opened | To traffic on 24 June 1981 Officially on 17 July 1981 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 33,000 vehicles |
| Toll | Toll/Humbertag discount
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| Location | |
The Humber Bridge is a 2.22 km (2,430 yd; 7,300 ft; 1.38 mi) single-span road suspension bridge near Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. When it opened to traffic on 24 June 1981, it was the longest of its type in the world; the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge surpassed it in 1998, and it became the thirteenth-longest by 2024.
The bridge spans the Humber (an estuary formed by the rivers Trent and Ouse), between Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Hessle on the north bank, connecting the East Riding of Yorkshire with North Lincolnshire. Both sides of the bridge were in the non-metropolitan county of Humberside until its dissolution in 1996. The bridge can be seen for miles around, from as far as Patrington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and from out to sea miles off the coast. It is a Grade I listed building.
By 2006, the bridge carried an average of 120,000 vehicles per week. The toll was £3.00 each way for cars (higher for commercial vehicles), which made it the most expensive toll crossing in the United Kingdom. In April 2012, the toll was halved to £1.50 each way after the UK government deferred £150 million from the bridge's outstanding debt.