Bridge Name: | Pont de l'Iroise |
Carries: | N165 road |
Crosses: | Élorn |
Locale: | Finistère |
Owner: | Finistère DDE (Direction Départementale de l'Equipement), Ministry of Public Works |
Maint: | Finistère DDE |
Architect: | René Le Friant, René Terzian |
Designer: | Michel Placidi |
Engineering: | Alain Chauvin; Service d'Etudes Techniques des Routes et Autoroute, SOGELERG |
Material: | reinforced concrete, steel |
Length: | 800.05m (2,624.84feet) |
Width: | 23.1m (75.8feet) |
Height: | 113m (371feet) |
Mainspan: | 400m (1,300feet) |
Spans: | 7 |
Pierswater: | 2 |
Below: | 26.5m (86.9feet) |
Builder: | Demathieu et Bard; Groupe Razel; Pico |
Begin: | 1991 |
Complete: | 1994 |
Cost: | 264 million Francs[1] |
Preceded: | pont Albert-Louppe |
Coordinates: | 48.3875°N -4.3978°W |
The French: '''Pont de l'Iroise''' (in French pronounced as /pɔ̃ də liʁwaz/, literally Bridge of the Iroise) is a cable-stayed bridge in Finistère, Brittany, France, which spans the Élorn river where it enters the roadstead of Brest. It carries route nationale 165, the road between Brest and Quimper, and connects Le Relecq-Kerhuon to the north with Plougastel-Daoulas to the south. The bridge is named after the Iroise Sea, into which the roadstead of Brest opens.