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Show A Novel Bridie at VUuna, A project is on foot for spanning the Dannbe canal in Vienna with a bridge lined with shops, after the model of the famous Ponte Rialto at Venice and the Arno bridge at Florenoe. The Btrnctnre is to be exclusively of iron. It will be sixty-four meters long and forty-eight wide, one of the broadest in the world. The carriageway will be twelve meters wide, and the interior footpath on either side three. The inner railings will be flanked by footpaths four meters in width. There will be sixty-eight shops on the new bridge, which will be built i on the site of the Ferdinand's Brncke, I the only wooden croesway that now traverses trav-erses the canal. |