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Carries
  
Road vehicles

Official name
  
Krčki most

Opened
  
19 July 1980

Total length
  
1,430 m

Locale
  
Western Croatia

Design
  
concrete arch bridge

Height
  
67 m

Location
  
Croatia

Krk Bridge

Crosses
  
Krk Channel (Adriatic Sea)

Maintained by
  
Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb d.d.

Architects
  
Vukan Njagulj, Ilija Stojadinovic, Bojan Možina

Bridge type
  
Arch bridge, Deck arch bridge

Similar
  
Biserujka, Maslenica Bridge, Paški most, Krka Bridge, Church of St Lucy - Jurandvor

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Krk Bridge (Croatian: Krčki most) is a 1430 m long reinforced concrete arch bridge connecting the Croatian island of Krk to the mainland and carrying over a million vehicles per year. The longer of the bridge's two arches is the second longest concrete arch in the world and among the longest arches of any construction. The bridge was completed and opened in July 1980 and originally named Titov most ("Tito's bridge") in honor of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, who had died two months earlier.

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The krk bridge connecting the island of krk to the mainland adriatic croatia


Construction

The bridge was designed by Ilija Stojadinović in cooperation with Vukan Njagulj and Bojan Možina, and built by Mostogradnja Belgrade and Hidroelektra Zagreb between 1976 and 1980. It was designed as a cantilever bridge with temporary cable-stays. Structurally, the bridge consists of two reinforced concrete arch spans, which rest on the islet of St. Mark (Croatian: Sv. Marko) between Krk and the mainland. The length of the longer arch is 390 m (actually 416 m, a part of the bow is in the water), which made it the longest concrete arch at the time of construction, the distinction it held until it was surpassed by Wanxian Bridge (425 m length of arch) in 1997.

Traffic

Krk Bridge connects the island's 19,383 inhabitants (as of 2011) and its tourist resorts to Jadranska magistrala, the main road along the Adriatic coast. It also connects the city of Rijeka to Rijeka Airport, which is situated on Krk. In the first 20 years of its existence, the bridge was crossed by 27 million vehicles, more than double of ferry traffic to and from the island. The increasing levels of traffic warrant a larger replacement bridge which is currently in planning stages.

References

Krk Bridge Wikipedia


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