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Question

is the howrah bridge retractable?

No

Image

Any one have a picture of the newly illuminated bridge? Pls add. Amartyabag ^TALK2ME 13:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bridge width

In the text the width is stated as 97 meters, when it is in fact 97 feet. Please correct the mistake.

Cattle no more travels on the bridge. It used to in the past. Please incorporate the same.

Busiest in the world?

Nope. The GWB in New York City carries roughly twice as much traffic. I'm removing that from the photo caption. Also, the 59th St. Bridge, also in NYC, carries more traffic and is also a cantilever bridge. Let's try to find some citations for calling the Howrah Bridge the "busiest". Ayengar (talk) 00:55, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge also carries more vehicles. And I SERIOUSLY DOUBT that four million pedestrians cross the bridge every day. Is that done in the two fifteen-foot wide sidewalks on the bridge? A credible reference is needed for this claim. - SCgatorFan (talk) 00:40, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I counted people one day on the southern (busier) side at about 9am and came up with not more than one person per second over the course of a minute. Assuming that this ridiculously heavy volume is sustained for 24hrs (and it is not, because I was there at less busy times, too) you would still only get around 1.7mil per day. If you count all the people on the busses that pass over the bridge, then you might get closer. But 4mil do NOT walk across the bridge in a day. ~~

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No, The Howrah Bridge is not retractable. The smaller bridge that existed before it was constructed in 1943, was said to be retractable to allow ships pass through.

Last edited at 19:19, 10 November 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 18:21, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Coordinate error

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The following coordinate fixes are needed for

—49.200.11.102 (talk) 11:23, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You haven't explained what you think to be erroneous, and the coordinates in the article appear to be basically correct (I've tweaked them slightly). If you still think that there is a error, please give a clear explanation of what it is, removing "tlc|" from the {{geodata-check}} template above. Deor (talk) 17:48, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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