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Maumee River, Toledo, Ohio Cable Stayed Bridge Components
AMECO USA manufactured cable stayed bridge components for the Maumee River Bridge in Toledo, Ohio. The bridge is also known as Veterans Glass City Skyway or Toledo Skyway Bridge. The main span over the Maumee River is a cable stayed type bridge with a single pylon and two spans 612 feet on each side of the pylon. The main span approaches are approximately 4,000 feet north of the river and 3,350 feet south of the Maumee. The bridge design is a single pylon tower centered in the river, with two deck spans, one on each side of the tower. That results in two parallel bridge spans help up by a single set of cables, with each span the same length on each side of the tower. The cable arrangement is unique in that the cables do not attache to the main tower. Rather, the cables loop through the towers, and attach only at the bridge deck. Several smaller cable stayed bridges are now using this technique, but this is the pioneering structure to attempt such a design. The main attraction of the bridge is the single pylon which contains 384 light emitting diode (LED) fixtures that are capable of creating 16.7 million potential color combinations. The LEDs shine through all the glass facing on all four sides of upper 196 feet feet of the main pylon. These lights should be visible from up to 3 miles away.
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