Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge Fatih Sultan Mehmet Köprüsü | |
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Freeman Fox & Partners | |
Construction start | March 29, 1985[1] |
Construction end | March 29, 1988[2] |
Construction cost | US$380,000,000[3] |
Opened | July 3, 1988[2][4] |
Statistics | |
Toll | HGS |
Location | |
The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge ("Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror Bridge";
The bridge is named after the 15th-century Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, who conquered the Byzantine capital, Constantinople (Istanbul), in 1453. It carries the European route E80, Asian Highway 1, Asian Highway 5 and Otoyol 2 highways.
Three other bridges that connect Europe and Asia are located in Turkey, which are named
Location
The bridge is situated between Istanbul Hisarüstü (
Construction
The bridge was designed by
Transportation
The bridge is on the
Toll collection
Fatih Sultan Mehmet is a toll bridge, but payment is required only from vehicles traveling to Asia (as in the First Bosphorus Bridge, no payment is required while passing from Asia to Europe.) Since April 2008, cash payments are no longer accepted, having been replaced by a remote payment system. As of the OGS systems retirement on March 31, 2022, HGS is the only way to access the bridge.
A HGS sticker can be obtained at various stations before the toll plaza of highways and bridges.[7]
As of 2024 the toll fee is 15 to 110 Turkish lira, depending on the type of vehicle.[8]
See also
- Bosphorus Bridge
- Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge
- Eurasia Tunnel, undersea tunnel, crossing the Bosphorus for vehicular traffic, opened in December 2016.
- Great Istanbul Tunnel, a proposed three-level road-rail undersea tunnel.
- 1915 Çanakkale Bridge, longest suspension bridge in the world in Çanakkale.
- Osman Gazi Bridge
- Marmaray, rail line connecting the Asian and European sides of Istanbul
- Public transport in Istanbul
- Rail transport in Turkey
- Turkish straits
References
- ^ "30 Mayıs 1985". Milliyet Gazete Arşivi (English: Milliyet Newspaper Archive) (in Turkish). 1985-05-30. Archived from the original on 2011-05-08. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
- ^ a b c "Fatih Sultan Mehmet Köprüsü" (PDF). General Directorate of Highways. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-06-12. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
- ^ a b Dost, Yakup; Dedeoğlu, Erdoğan (2008). "Fatih Sultan Mehmet Köprüsünün Projeleştirilme ve Yapım Aşamaları" [Design and Construction Stages of Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge] (PDF). Istanbul Technical University (in Turkish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-25.
- ^ a b "4 Temmuz 1988". Milliyet Gazete Arşivi (English: Milliyet Newspaper Archive) (in Turkish). 1988-07-04. Archived from the original on 2024-03-18. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Freeman Fox & Partners". Structurae. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
- ^ "Şirket Profili" [Company Profile]. Bosphorus Technical Consulting Corporation (in Turkish). 2010-10-30. Archived from the original on 2010-10-30. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
- ^ "FSM Köprüsü'nde Nakit Geçiş Kalktı". Haber 34 (in Turkish). 2008-04-25. Archived from the original on 2008-07-19. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
- ^ "KÖPRÜ VE OTOYOL GEÇİŞ ÜCRETLERİ 2024 (YENİ)". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2024-01-02. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
External links
- Media related to Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge at Wikimedia Commons
- Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge at Structurae
- Google aerial image of bridge
- 3D-model ″Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge″ for Google Earth Archived 2012-10-21 at the Wayback Machine