Second to last picture is not of this bridge... so ignore the calming waters below.. there are none...

yeah ummmm, these pictures don't match up. good job

Actually designed by British architect Norman Foster

That second to last picture looks like the Kobe Japan bridge, which isn't the tallest, but is the longest (two tower) suspension bridge in the world.

Is the bridge straight or curved? If it's Millau, it must be straight.

It looks like it's curved because they used a fish eye lens to take the first picture.

photoshopped!

This entire post is bullshit!
All the images are "shopped, or dont belong to this bridge set!
Plus it was designed by an Englishman not a Frenchman!
Do some research in the future, retard!

D: I want to go on it.

This bridge exists, but it has no pillar in the water. The really interesting thing about this bridge is the way it was built:
- They first build the concretes pillars (wich are empty) and aditional temporary support (in red, metalic)
- then they built the road on the land at each ends and slide it on the pillars
- bring the topmost end of each pillars, above them (pic 3, the right pillar)
- put them vertical
- add cables
- remove temorary support (pic 4)

Legend in the countryside says that there where some problems :
- finding a way to prevent people to stare the foor
- find efficent windshields, but if the bridge handle all the wind, it will blend. So it is shaped so that the forced exerced by the wind on one side is canceled by the shape of the other side (a bit like a plane wing profile).

The shape have been made by Norman Foster, engineerings techniques are from Michel Virlogeux and lot of other companies.

It was built in 3 years by a private company which will return it to public domain within 50 years.

Before the first day they opened it to rollers and skateboard wich may have been a fun since it's not flat but a bit inclined. I missed this day, it's just 100 km from where I'm living... :(
They also autorized some basejumpers and bungie there.

it saves 30 minutes on the drive. what is the payback on that?

I had your mom on that bridge. She was fabulous.

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The Royal Gorge bridge in Canon City Colorado is 1250 feet above the Arkansas river.

hahahaha, wait ....... really?

viaduct

Doesn't anyone else think this is a monstrosity?

fake

It's not fake, they drove over it in an episode of Top Gear

Bungee it I will!!!!!

any other base jumpers want to join me

simply wonderful
i like it

Well a few things:
1. The bridge is straight, the first picture is just distorted by whatever lens/setting that was used.

2. It was Designed by the structural engineer Michel Virlogeux _AND_ British architect Norman Foster

3. No idea why that second-to-last picture is in here.

4. Most of the above is already mentioned but I wanted to compile it in a single post.

[quote]The Royal Gorge bridge in Canon City Colorado is 1250 feet above the Arkansas river.[/quote]

No it's not, I's 1053ft. It says so on royalgeorgebridge.com... And whats with so many people calling it photoshopped or fake? Any of you guys just tried googling "Millau Bridge?" I've stood underneath one of the pillars, sure looked real then!

THIS IS GAYYYYYYYY!!
LOLOLOLOL!!
your momma is so dirty that flies don wanna approach her!1!

You guys this real!
In the first picture whoever took that picture used a fish lens.
In the second picture there are 2 pillars that you cant see the base of.
The third picture is covered by fog so you wouldn't be able to see the other third of the bridge.
In the fourth picture there is water in between 2 pillars in which you cant see properly in any of these pictures.
Then the last picture is of the construction of the bridge so you can only see the top half of the bridge.
Why would these guys lie about a bridge?

Number 25 is completely right!

In the second pic the third pillar (from the camera) looks weird

You can find more info on good ol Wikipedia!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_Viaduct

I took a huge shit when I went over this bridge.

The curve must make it a bitch to drive on. even if it is slight, the constant turns would piss me off.

Never mind, it's much shorter than I initially thought

It saves more than 30 minutes. Have you ever seen the traffic going through millau and up the sides of the gorge during the summerholidays before the bridge was built. It saves hours.

(The second last image is obviously a suspension bridge and not a cable-stay.)
It appears that the red structures are temporary. The images are certainly not in any order as these red structures are in various stages of deployment and dissasembly. The bridge appears curved in the first image because of the panoramic illusion. Why does the bridge appear curved in the final image?
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This article successfully serves to produce curiosity about the structure, but it certainly has no (or little) merit as a source of reliable information.

not nearly as tall as the Royal Gorge Bridge

oh my god, there's no bridge there, you guys are so gullible, I happen to live right beside where this 'bridge' supposedly is (that means French is my first language, so forgive my imperfect diction if it prevents complete understanding of my post) and there's nothing there, just a mountain. I saw the wikipedia article too, it's obviously shopped, they didn't even use citations, you guys are such newfags.

Strange how you can see it was still in construction when the satellite pictures were taken for google earth then.

Oh you bunch of gays. This is SHOPPED, it's just good old Tower bridge in London. You can tell by the way the shadows are that it's shopped

Someone stepped into the river downstream and the water level rose, so those pillars are all made watertight and just at he moment one was touching the river the for-last picture was taken. Only the boat was fake: much to small for a boat.