Pont de Choisy-le-Roi, bridge in France
The Pont de Choisy-le-Roi carries the D86 across the Seine on two parallel prestressed-concrete box girders, each 14 m wide, with spans of 37.5, 55 and 37.5 m. V-shaped piers support the deck, which has a central median, bus lanes for the Trans-Val-de-Marne, general traffic lanes and cycle paths added in 2017–2019.
A first bridge was built here in 1809 by Davia, destroyed in the war of 1870 and rebuilt. The current bridge was built by Campenon-Bernard between August 1962 and August 1965, designed by architect Albert Grégoire and engineer Jean Muller with Jacques Mathivat under Jean Chaudesaigues. It was the first bridge in France built with precast box-girder segments glued with epoxy resin and erected by cantilever.
Its seldom-used official name, Pont de l'Appel du 18 Juin 1940 – Général de Gaulle, commemorates Charles de Gaulle's appeal to the French on 18 June 1940. The bridge carries the D86, named Avenue Jean Jaurès on the left bank and Avenue Victor Hugo on the right, and a dedicated lane for the Trans-Val-de-Marne express bus line.
The bridge carries the D86 between Avenue Jean Jaurès on the left bank and Avenue Victor Hugo on the right, with the TVM rapid bus lanes in the middle and pedestrian and cycle paths at the outer edges. On the west side a second structure crosses the SNCF and RER line C tracks and Avenue du 8 Mai 1945, next to the former Orléans railway station now used as a youth centre.
This was one of the first bridges in France built with prefabricated concrete segments assembled with special adhesive. A floating crane was used to install these parts, balanced assembly extending from the center outward.
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