Van Brienenoord Bridge

Located at the east side of Rotterdam, it crosses the New Meuse (Nieuwe Maas), a major distributary of the river Rhine.

Traffic exceeds 235,000 vehicles crossing the bridge daily,[1] using four 3-lane carriageways, in an express versus local / distributor arrangement.

[2] In 1990 the bridge received a major upgrade, by the addition of a second, almost identical arch (305 m long and slightly broader) right next to its west flank, doubling its traffic capacity.

Approximately 500 of these ships require the bridge to be opened, a process which takes 18 minutes total.

An electro-mechanical failure on 17 March 2006 left the bridge open for about an hour, on the middle of day, causing traffic jams up to 7 kilometres in length.

The Van Brienenoord Bridge, seen from the west, with a barge in front. The bascule bridges are on the far left
Looking at the twin bridge from the south, it's hard to tell that one of the twins is 25 years older than the other.
Each bridge arch carries two roadways – the inner with three lanes of express traffic; and an outer with another three local / distributor lanes.
The bridge operator's house and radar on the north-east corner are defunct since 2005