Howrah Bridge
Coordinates | 22°35′06″N 88°20′49″E﻿ / ﻿22.5851°N 88.3469°E﻿ / 22.5851; 88.3469 Coordinates: 22°35′06″N 88°20′49″E﻿ / ﻿22.5851°N 88.3469°E﻿ / 22.5851; 88.3469
Carries | 4 lanes of Strand Road, pedestrians and bicycles
Crosses | Hooghly River
Locale | Howrah and Kolkata
Official name | Rabindra Setu
Maintained by | Kolkata Port Trust
Design | Suspension type Balanced Cantilever and truss arch
Material | Steel
Total length | 705 m (2,313.0 ft)
Width | 71 ft (21.6 m) with two footpaths of 15 ft (4.6 m) on either side
Height | 82 m (269.0 ft)
Longest span | 1,500 ft (457.2 m)
Clearance below | 8.8 m (28.9 ft)
Designer | and Tritton
Constructed by | Braithwaite, Burn & Jessop Construction
Construction start | 1936 (1936)
Construction end | 1942 (1942)
Opened | 3 Feb 1943; 76 years ago (3 Feb 1943)
Daily traffic | 300,000 vehicles and 450,000 pedestrians
Toll | Free both ways