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== Roofed bridges== [[File:Pont de rohan 20060523-002.jpg|thumb|Pont de Rohan in [[Landerneau]], France]] [[File:DJI 0145 j2ruska sild.ogv|thumb|Drone video of the wooden roofed Järuska bridge in Estonia]] Roofed, rather than covered bridges, have existed for centuries in southern Europe and Asia. In these cases, the cover is to protect the users of the bridge rather than the structure. Examples include: * The [[Pont de Rohan]] in [[Landerneau]], France, and the [[Pont des Marchands]] in [[Narbonne]] are two of 45 inhabited bridges in Europe. * A tubular bridge is a bridge built as a rigid [[box girder]] section within which the traffic is carried.<ref name="Chrimes1991">{{cite book |title=Civil Engineering, 1839–1889 |publisher=Alan Sutton |location=London |first=Mike |last=Chrimes |page=47 |year=1991 |isbn=1-84015-008-4}}</ref> Examples include the [[Britannia Bridge]] and the [[Conwy Railway Bridge]] in the United Kingdom. * A [[skyway]] is a type of urban [[pedway]] consisting of an enclosed or covered [[footbridge]] between two buildings, designed to protect pedestrians from the weather. For example, the [[Bridge of Sighs (Cambridge)|Bridge of Sighs]] in Cambridge, and Oxford's [[Bridge of Sighs (Oxford)|Bridge of Sighs]] and [[Logic Lane covered bridge]]. * A [[jet bridge]] is an enclosed, [[moveable bridge]] which extends from an [[airport terminal]] [[Gate (airport)|gate]] to an [[airplane]], allowing passengers to board and disembark without having to go outside.<ref name=Gesell>{{cite book |title=The Administration of Public Airports |publisher=Coast Aire |location=Chandler, AZ |first=Laurence E |last=Gesell |pages=[https://archive.org/details/administrationof0000gese/page/114 114–115] |year=1992 |isbn=0-9606874-7-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/administrationof0000gese/page/114}}</ref> * Some stone arch bridges are covered to protect pedestrians or as a decoration—as with the Italian [[Ponte Coperto]] and [[Rialto Bridge]], and the Chùa Cầu (the Japanese Bridge; see Gallery below) in Vietnam. * In China ''lángqiáo'' ([[wikt:廊桥|廊桥]]) covered bridges are found in [[Guangxi]], including the [[Chengyang Bridge]] and the [[Xijin Bridge]]. These are pier and girder bridges, not truss bridges. The [[Japanese Bridge|Chùa Cầu]] bridge is found in [[Vietnam]]. * In Europe there are also bridges built not strictly for transport, for example the [[Český Krumlov Castle]] Bridge in the Czech Republic, the [[Covered Bridge, Lovech|Lovech Covered Bridge]] in Bulgaria, and the [[Ponte Vecchio, Bassano|Ponte Vecchio]] in Italy.
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