Pont de Pont-de-l'Arche, Road bridge between Pont-de-l'Arche and Igoville, France.
The Pont de Pont-de-l'Arche is a concrete bridge about 300 meters long that spans the Seine River and links the municipalities of Pont-de-l'Arche and Igoville in Normandy. The structure allows vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians to cross the river and improves traffic connections in this part of the Eure department.
A wooden bridge with twenty-two portcullis-gated arches, flanked by two forts, was built from 862 under Charles the Bald to block Viking raids on the Seine. The Vikings seized it in 865 and held it for a year before returning it for 4,000 livres of silver. The current 300-metre welded-girder bridge was inaugurated on 29 January 1955 by Pierre Mendès France.
The name "Pont-de-l'Arche" refers to the fortress the medieval bridge protected, since "arche" meant stronghold. Crossing was once subject to a toll, the droit de pontage. The concrete parapet carries two signs, "L'Eure" and "La Seine", marking the two rivers the bridge crosses at their confluence.
The deck carries two traffic lanes plus two wide pavements, one of them partly a cycle path, with speed limited to 50 km/h. The Eure span rests on Île Saint-Pierre, reached by a staircase from the left bank at the level of the second pier. The bridge continues the D6015 between Vernon and Rouen.
The bridge's concrete parapet carries two small black signs, one reading "L'Eure" and the other "La Seine", marking the two rivers the crossing spans. A white plaque on the left face begins with the word "PONT". The Eure span rests on Île Saint-Pierre, reached by a staircase from the left bank at the level of the second pier.
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