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The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, which consists of two parallel bridges, holds the distinction as the longest over-water highway in the world by total length. The 24-mile long bridge spans 1/1000th of the earth’s circumference on its trek between Metairie and Mandeville, Louisiana. The causeway is a marvelous engineering project and a wonder to behold as you drive over it with the blue of the water and the blue of the sky merging in the distance ahead of you. The bridge is 24-miles long, and consists of two parallel decks 80-feet apart each outfitted with two lanes of traffic. The decks are supported by more than 9,000 pilings and joined by seven turnaround zones for emergency vehicles. Each weekday over 42,000 cars cross Lake Pontchartrain on the longest bridge in the world, The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway.
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