<html><head></head><body>Pontoon bridge is the only term I am familiar with for such bridges.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 2, 2014 9:55:00 AM CDT, Clifford Snow <clifford@snowandsnow.us> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Here in Western Washington we call them pontoons. See <a href="http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR520/Pontoons.htm">http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR520/Pontoons.htm</a><div><br /></div><div>We've never properly tagged the bridge type but they are pontoons. These pontoons do not look like the wiki picture, but are big boxes which are anchored to the lake/ocean floor. </div>
<div><br /></div><div>BTW - these are large, multilane structures with no sense of sway, except in the most extreme weather. And then they close the bridge. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><br /><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">2014-09-02 16:14 GMT+02:00 Volker Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:voschix@gmail.com" target="_blank">voschix@gmail.com</a>></span>:<div class="">
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<div>Wikipedia does not agree with Martin:<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontoon_bridge" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontoon_bridge</a></div></blockquote></div></div><br /><br />it depends on the language ;-)<br />
<br /><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponton" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponton</a><br /><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers,<br />Martin<br /></div></div>
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