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Originally Posted by red-paladin
A 1.1km cable stayed span would be tied with the longest cable stayed span on the planet. A 2.25km suspension span would be the longest ever built, it would have to be suspension as it's the only type of bridge that can have that long a span.
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FYI, the non-navigation channels don't need much marine clearance, and the areas that haven't been carved by a glacier as significantly probably will be ok with a couple of intermediate bridge segments. This makes the minimum sized centre spans a lot smaller and the overall bridge cheaper.
Howe sound is the deepest fjord on the south coast, the other ones are less of a problem to figure out technically.
I think I may have also come up with a cost-effective way of spanning those long spans in some situations, so a span of over 2km may be very reasonable on some crossings. I need to find some structural bridge engineers to talk to about it though.
