Located in southern France,

Structural statistics



* 17 December 2004 : Opening of bridge to traffic

(15 December 2004 : Inauguration)

* 22,650,000 vehicles have used the Viaduct de Millau in its first five years of service.

* 10 October 2001 : Construction work started

* 343 m : Height at top of pylons

* 280 m / 919 ft: Height of roadway over the Tarn

* 2,460 m / 155 miles: Total length of roadway

* 8 spans resting on 7 piers

o span widths: 204 m between abutments and first and last piers

o 342 m spans between remaining piers

* 2230 tonnes : Weight of each of the 16 sections of road-deck. Each section is built up from 60 tonne deck-units, each 4 m wide by 17 m long.

The deck-units are built in Eiffel�s factories at Lauterbourg and os-sur-Mer.

* Heights of the 7 piers :

P1 : 94,50 m

P2 : 244,96 m

P3 : 221,05 m

P4 : 144,21 m

P5 : 136,42 m

P6 : 111,94 m

P7 : 77,56 m





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