{"id":17044,"date":"2022-08-29T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/?p=77849"},"modified":"2022-08-29T05:20:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T03:20:12","slug":"top-10-worlds-longest-bridges","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/rss_feed\/top-10-worlds-longest-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10: World\u2019s longest bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Holly Spanner\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 29 August 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Many have floated the idea of a bridge between England and mainland Europe. This Channel-spanning bridge would need to be 35km long, a distance that would make it the lengthiest bridge in Europe \u2013 well beyond Portugal\u2019s 17km Vasco da Gama Bridge.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, plans have recently been scrapped for a bridge connecting Northern Ireland with Scotland<\/a> due to forecasted costs and engineering challenges. Although no plans were formally laid out, at their closest point, Scotland and Northern Ireland are around 19km apart.<\/p>\n

However, such a construction wouldn\u2019t even break into the world\u2019s top 10 longest bridges.<\/p>\n

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