The incredible £606m bridge set to be the highest in Europe | World | News
A new bridge being built in one of Europe’s most popular countries is on track to break records. The SE-40 motorway bridge in Seville, Spain, will become the highest bridge in Europe once completed. The huge structure is set to measure at least 70.8 metres in height. It will form part of the SE-40 ring road, which encircles Seville as a metropolitan ring, stretching 77.6 kilometres.
Construction of the complex bridge is scheduled for this year, with the aim of reducing congestion on the SE-30 route, the main ring road for the entire metropolitan area.
The project is approved by Spain‘s Ministry of Transport, is being coordinated by the public engineering company Ineco, with the structural design being carried out by a joint venture of Tylin Spain SL and MC2 Estudio de Ingeniería, and the preliminary concept studies prepared by Ayesa, one of Spain’s leading IT service providers.
The bridge is expected to cost 700 million euros, which is equivalent to around £606 million. It will feature a series of viaducts totalling 3.5km, including a cable-stayed bridge spanning the Guadalquivir River.
According to the Ministry of Transport, the bridge will accommodate up to 2,800 vehicles per hour. Plans reveal that it will have four lanes in each direction, as well as a wide pedestrian path and a two-way cycle lane across a deck measuring over 42 metres wide, reports Murcia Today.
The Ministry described the structure awaiting completion as part of the SE-40 road project as “the most important bridge built by the General Directorate of Highways in the last two decades”.
There are already five sections of the SE-40 that make up around half of the planned 77km ring road, which is now open. The entire project is expected to be completed by 2030.
