Roads, highways and bridges

Today, you won't find anything of the Pelican Bridge, a steel bridge kept in place with thousands of rivets across the Veurnevaart in Nieuwpoort.

For almost a century, the Veuve Van Enschodt bridge over the Rupel was the only connection between the Antwerp municipalities of Klein Willebroek and Boom.

Alberto Palacio, a Spanish engineer and architect, made history in 1893 when his design of a suspension bridge was put into use over the Nervión. This Spanish river flows into the Bay of Biscay near the port of Bilbao.

A well-hidden pedestrian tunnel under the railway in Brussels, inaugurated in 1913, connects two branches of the Koninginnelaan.

Pont de l'Origine is one of the drawbridges along the old canal between Brussels and Charleroi. 

In both Seneffe and Arquennes, traffic was guided over the Brussels-Charleroi Canal via a swing bridge.

The ring road R8 around the Belgian town of Kortrijk has been awaiting completion for decades. Construction of this ring road around the city began more than 50 years ago, in 1973. 

The Wiedauwkaai bridge over the canal-Terneuzen is a swing bridge that allows passenger traffic over the railway line between Ghent and Eeklo and freight transport towards the Kluizendok.

A control tower was erected at West Berlin's Joachimsthaler Platz to manage car traffic in 1956.

Hardly anything remains of the Brommy Bridge over the Spree today. In 1945, the bridge was blown up by the German army to prevent the Red Army's advance.