Bridges of Lyon

The bridge was built in conjunction with the establishment of Boulevard périphérique de Lyon initiated by President of the General Council Bonnevay Lawrence, a highway that bears his name today.

More recently, both ends of the bridge have been widened and modified to connect to an interchange north of the structure and to a large traffic circle at the Boulevard périphérique.

It required the manufacturers to replace the western edge of the dam which limited the Parc de la Tête d'Or by several spans for the passage of water.

The Passerelle de la Paix (Skyway of Peace) is a 220-metre (720-foot) long pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Rhône river.

It was built due to the pressure of population on the left bank, which had no public high school (the girls did not appear at the end of XIX ((e)) century and the Parc after the war 1914), the bridge allowed the students not to take detour bridges Morand or Lafayette and cross safely.

The bridge was partially destroyed in 1944, a battery was rebuilt almost identical in stones (the middle one bears a commemorative inscription).

A revolutionary structure for the period, it had a reinforced concrete deck resting on piers of stone masonry in the Villette.

The bridge from the Middle Ages was based on a forest of oak piles, which have made the digging of the subway tunnel, in the 1980s.

The bridge, along 267.50 m to 20 m wide, consists of three arches in Longwy molten metal and resting on piers built of Porcieu-Amblagnieu stone.

It was destroyed in 1944, rebuilt, and finally demolished in 1962–1965 to be replaced by a steel bridge larger (28.5 m) but shorter (204, 8 m), inaugurated on 30 October 1965.

Its cast iron arches made Givors are based on batteries sitting on piles under the old techniques, but renewed and strengthened several times, especially when doubling its steel in 1926.

In the early days of the Liberation, the Americans filled in tracks remaining in place to move convoys heavy vehicles onto the deck with ramps installed at the station in Perrache.

This new bridge, named after Robert Schuman, was built upstream of the Pont Masaryk, which is restricted to pedestrian and cyclist use only.

It consisted of two spans retained by guy wires attached to three piles of Couzon stone, openness equal 85.20 m (280 ft); cables, repeatedly renewed, support apron 6.50 m wide, two sidewalks of one metre.

Its current name was given by 1 January 1931 in honour of Tomáš Masaryk (1854–1937), founder of the Czechoslovak Republic and friend of Édouard Herriot.

Its usefulness was related to the presence a little upstream right bank of the water station set up in 1827 for the needs of inland navigation and that can not be replaced until 1966 by the cuttings of tunnel Fourviere.

The central pier had some foundation problems because it was based on piles of wood protected by rocks that periodically had to be strengthened, but it has stood since all raw and even German artificers in 1944.

This bridge was to remain a major traffic by extending urban elevated highway at the first floor of the street Marietton, a famous LY[further explanation needed] envisaged in 1950 but they were quickly abandoned .

This project helps us understand the shape and rather unsightly piles that extend outside of the road because they had to accommodate the foundations of the bridge above.

It was replaced by a new wooden bridge just over nine meters wide consisting of five arches, built from 1811 under the direction of the engineer Kermengan and inaugurated on July 2, 1815.

Incompatible with the requirements of river traffic in view of the layout of the axis Rhin-Rhône, the then-called Pont de Serin, with two 3 m (10 ft) lanes and two narrow sidewalks on five light and elegant stone arches, was withdrawn from road traffic minutes after traffic was restored a few meters upstream by the Mayor of Lyon (for road) and the French state engineer (the requester for higher capacity navigation thus builder of the new bridge) on the new General Kœnig bridge, with 4 3.50 m lanes and 2 2.50 m sidewalks on 3 steel spans, total length and width 108 m (354 ft) and 19 m (62 ft).

It was finally destroyed in 1833 and replaced by a bridge built by the company in Seguin 1833–1834 to serve Palais de Justice.

The bridge, rebuilt in 1844, was composed of two batteries anchored near the shoreline based on an ark Central 47.70 m by two side spans of approximately 20 m (66 ft).

4 m wide, its span of 136 m is suspended by cable stays planted in a single mast anchored on the left bank of the River.

The first wooden bridge was built in 1745–1749 by Degerando on behalf of Hospices Civils de Lyon at the confluence of the Rhône and the Saône (before the decline of the latter more south in the 1780s).

Finally, in 1817, the Hospices Civils de Lyon Latombe support engineer to complete the work of the bridge, which opens on 13 October 1818.

To 1828, Mr Boisson de Chazournes built a wooden bridge to carry the material necessary for the development of the confluence and the future neighborhood of Perrache.

The rail structure is included in this list of bridges in Lyon even though his name is not official, its story deserves to be recalled.

It was started in 1854 in masonry, but on 29 November that year, without a significant flood, its two arches tilted left, no doubt for lack of foundation, and blocked the river.

The company PLM, very reluctant, eventually performed; then built on a metal bridge, which expands, at the expense of the City, the underpasses on the docks and got on the current profile that is only slightly altered in 1944 as artificers German found that they did not need to completely destroy the transition.