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A list of bascule bridges by country:

Contents 1 Australia 2 Canada 3 Croatia 4 Russia 5 Spain 6 Turkey 7 United Kingdom 8 United States

[edit] Australia

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• Birkenhead Bridge carries traffic across the Port River at Port Adelaide.
• Spit Bridge - Sydney, Australia - being widened from 4 lanes to 6 lanes in 2007
• Grafton Bridge, New South Wales - Grafton, New South Wales rail lower deck, road upper deck - lift span out of use
• Narooma Bridge - Narooma, New South Wales, still in use in 2005
• Carrathool Bridge - Carrathool , New South Wales, across the Murrumbidgee River - the last surviving example of a particular type of bascule lift span[1]

[edit] Canada

• Johnson Street Bridge, Victoria, British Columbia
• Jacknife Bridge, over the Kaministiquia River in Thunder Bay, Ontario
• Bridges 1 (Lakeshore Road Bridge), 3A (Carlton Street Bridge), 4 (Homer Bridge [Queenston Road]), 6 (Flight Locks Railway Bridge for Canadian National Railways), 19 (Main Street Bridge [Port Colborne]) and 19A (Mellanby Avenue Bridge) on the Welland Canal. Save for Bridges 3A and 19A, all of these were built during the late 1920s as part of the Fourth Canal expansion project (1913-1932). Bridge 3A was built to replace the original Bridge 3, which was destroyed in an accident. Bridge 19A was constructed in the 1980s to alleviate traffic on Bridge 19 (both bridges lie on either end of Lock 8). (It should be noted that Bridge 4 is a twin-leaf, Chicago-type bascule bridge, with its counterweights located under the road deck. All the other bascule bridges on the Welland Canal are single-leaf Rall-type bridges, with counterweights suspended on a frame structure over the roadway.)
• Lasalle Causeway - Kingston, Ontario

[edit] Croatia

• Osor Bridge in Osor
• Trogir Bridge in Trogir

[edit] Russia

• Palace Bridge and 20 more bridges in Saint Petersburg

[edit] Spain

• Deusto bridge, Bilbao

[edit] Turkey

• Galata Bridge, Istanbul

[edit] United Kingdom

• Tower Bridge, London
• Renfrew Swing Bridge (misnomer), Renfrew
• Lowestoft Bascule Bridge, Waveney

[edit] United States

• John Ross Bridge [2], Chattanooga, Tennessee (closed for repairs from 19 September, 2005 until late 2007).
• Burnside Bridge, Portland, Oregon
• Morrison Bridge, Portland, Oregon
• First Avenue South Bridge, Seattle, Washington
• Montlake Bridge, Seattle, Washington
• University Bridge, Seattle, Washington
• Fremont Bridge, Seattle, Washington
• Ballard Bridge, Seattle, Washington
• Salmon Bay Bridge, Seattle, Washington
• Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Market Street Bridge, Wilmington, Delaware
• Million Dollar Bridge, Portland, Maine (demolished)
• Charles Berry Bridge Lorain,Ohio [3]
• Woodrow Wilson Bridge, Alexandria, Virginia - Washington, DC - Prince George's County, Maryland
• Pasquotank River Bridge, Elizabeth City, North Carolina [4]
• CSX railroad Bridge, Wilmington, NC
• Various bridges across the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida.
• Mystic River Bascule Bridge, Mystic, Connecticut
• Thames River Bridge between New London and Groton, Connecticut. (to be replaced with a vertical lift finishing 2008)
• Lake Pontchartrain Causeway on Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana.