They also tend to be the most expensive to build. True to its name, a suspension bridge suspends the roadway from huge main cables, which extend from one end of the bridge to the other.

The four main cables are each made up of 26,474 individual ... that drivers never think about when crossing the mighty ...

The bridge's designers carefully calculated the graceful dip of the suspension cables between ... compressed 61 strands to make a cable. Each of the two main cables is just over three feet in ...

The "Little Mac" suspension bridge is now open to pedestrians after a four-month closure of construction. The bridge over the ...

Vincent Thomas Bridge’s westbound lanes will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday, March 28, to 7 p.m. Sunday, March 30 for ...

A $2 billion project to restore the 94-year-old George Washington Bridge reached a major milestone on Thursday as the last of 592 vertical steel suspension ropes connecting the main cables to the ...

March 30 for structural inspections of the main cable bands along the bridge’s suspension cables. An additional weekend closure of the westbound lanes may be required the weekend of April 4 ...