The Chords Bridge, or Gesher HaMeitarim, crosses Shazar Boulevard in Jerusalem. Santiago Calatrava designed it. The article names no owner or client. Construction began in 2005 and the bridge was inaugurated on June 25, 2008. It carries the Jerusalem Light Rail Red Line, which began service on August 19, 2011, and a glass-sided pedestrian bridge between Kiryat Moshe and the Jerusalem Central Bus Station.
It is a side-spar cable-stayed bridge of steel and reinforced concrete clad in Jerusalem stone. It is 360 meters long and 14.82 meters wide, with a longest span of 160 meters. A single 118-meter mast supports 66 steel cables above two electrified rail tracks.
The article gives no formal style. Time magazine called it Jerusalem's first shrine of modern design.
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