The Howrah Bridge is one of the most popular landmarks and symbols of the city of Kolkata which can only be matched by the Victoria Memorial. This bridge, inaugurated in 1943, is one of the busiest bridges in the world with over 80,000 vehicles and more than 10,00,000 pedestrians crossing it everyday. It was built with 26,500 tonnes of steel. It is a suspension type bridge with a central span of 457 m, the two towers being 85 m high. It was renamed as the Rabindra Setu in 1965. The influence of this bridge on popular culture and the tourist map of Kolkata is huge; in fact a major movie had been named after it.
Completed in 1992 after 20 years of construction the Second Hooghly Bridge or the Vidyasagar Setu, this is one of the world's largest cable-stayed bridges with a length of 457.2 m.
The Vivekananda Setu (erstwhile Bally Bridge) was built in 1932 as a multi-spanned steel bridge much before the Howrah Bridge near Dakshineshwar. This is further upstream from Kolkata.
The 880 m long Nivedita Setu about 50 m downstream of the Vivekananda Setu was inaugurated in 2007.
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