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Highway Feature of the Week: Bosphorus Bridge (Boğaziçi Köprüsü), Istanbul, Turkey

20 April 2008 · Comments Off

Bridges

This week takes us to the bi-continental metropolis of Istanbul:

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The Bosphorus Bridge is the first of two bridges to span the Bosphorus, separating Europe from Asia.  It’s a 4954 foot-long suspension bridge completed in 1973, and it has since been superceded by the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge as the “through traffic” route between the European and Asian sides of the city.

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