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Golden Gate bridge is 887 000 tons: https://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/01/us/golden-gate-bridge-fast-facts/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/01/us/golden-

by est31 6y ago

Golden Gate bridge is 887 000 tons: https://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/01/us/golden-gate-bridge-fast-facts/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/01/us/golden-gate-bridge-fas... So around 1000 times as heavy.

azdle 6y ago
That sounds like the weight of the whole thing, not just the suspended part.
- radicaldreamer 6y ago
  I think the Golden Gate Bridge is massively overengineered (although nobody really knows) because materials engineering wasn’t super advanced back then.