The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

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The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, or the Causeway, consists of two parallel bridges that are the longest bridges in the world by total length. These parallel bridges cross Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana. The longer of the two bridges is 23.87 miles (38.42 km) long. The bridges are supported by over 9,000 concrete pilings. The two bridges feature bascule spans over the navigation channel 8 miles (13 km) south of the north shore. The southern terminus of the Causeway is in Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. The northern terminus is at Mandeville, Louisiana.

*Each weekday over 30,000 cars cross Lake Pontchartrain on the longest bridge in the world.

The toll rate for a normal car is $3.00, only paid by southbound traffic.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Pontchartrain_Causeway
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Coordinates:  30°11'33"N 90°7'26"W

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  • The Jiaozhou Bay bridge is 26 miles (42 kilometers) long and links China's eastern port city of Qingdao to the island of Huangdao. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaozhou_Bay_Bridge
  • The bridge in China doesn't count as the world's longest, because only a few miles of it are over water, the rest is over land.
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