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Old Posted Jan 10, 2023, 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by homebucket View Post
The term is a twin bridge or parallel bridge.

We have three parallel bridges here, as part of the Benicia-Martinez Bridge, which crosses the Carquinez Strait. In between the two vehicle bridges is a Union Pacific Railroad bridge.

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And just a few miles to the west, there's the Carquinez Bridge(s), which consists of one cantilever bridge built in 1958 (as a twin for the original 1926 bridge), and one suspension bridge built in 2003 (as a replacement for the bridge from 1926):




There's also this group of road/freeway bridges and an old rail drawbridge, across the Bay, in Larkspur:

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