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Longest Bridge Over Water (Continuous):Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, Louisiana.
Due to recent feats of Chinese engineering, the four-lane, 5,189-pile
concrete trestle bridge north of New Orleans got demoted by Guinness World Records
for world’s longest bridge over water. But the change did not come
without controversy, with many Pontchartrain loyalists arguing that the
new winner, a 25.84-mile elevated highway-bridge-tunnel project near
Qingdao, China, actually has only 16.1 miles that span the sea compared
to 23.79 miles of Pontchartrain’s that are over open water. Guinness
compromised by bestowing a new title upon the 58-year-old causeway:
Longest Bridge Over Water (Continuous). However you rank it, it’s still a
pulse-quickening half-hour drive.
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