Crescent City Connection
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The Crescent City Connection (CCC), formerly the Greater New Orleans (GNO) Bridge, is a pair of cantilever bridges that carry U.S. Highway 90 Business over the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. They are tied as the fifth-longest cantilever bridges in the world. Each span carries four general-use automobile lanes; additionally the westbound span has two reversible HOV lanes across the river.
Crescent City Connection
The Crescent City Connection and the New Orleans skyline
Skyline of New Orleans Central Business District from the Mississippi River with the Crescent City Connection in the foreground to the left. This panoramic view faces south (left side) and west (right side).
The New Orleans Morial Convention Center in front of the Crescent City Connection in 2001
Cantilever bridge
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A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end. For small footbridges, the cantilevers may be simple beams; however, large cantilever bridges designed to handle road or rail traffic use trusses built from structural steel, or box girders built from prestressed concrete.
The Pierre Pflimlin Bridge is a balanced cantilever made of concrete, shown here under construction.
The original style of cantilever bridge
The structural principles of the suspended span cantilever bridge
The Vejle Fjord Bridge is a concrete bridge built using the balanced cantilever method.