The Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas is a vertical-lift bridge over the Garonne River in Bordeaux, France. President François Hollande and Bordeaux mayor Alain Juppé inaugurated it on March 16, 2013. The article does not name an engineer, an architect or a client, and it gives no construction dates.
Its main span is 361 feet (110 meters) long. As of 2013 it was the longest vertical-lift bridge in Europe, according to the article. A vertical-lift design raises the whole span between two towers.
The bridge is named after Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a former French prime minister and former mayor of Bordeaux. Chaban-Delmas held both of those offices, and the bridge carries his name.
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