Correction for the weight of The Golden Gate Bridge
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How heavy is 830.60 megatonnes?
It's about 1,000 times as heavy as The Golden Gate Bridge
The weight of The Golden Gate Bridge is about 0.8050 megatonnes.
(San Francisco, California and Marin County, California) (Post 1986 weight reduction; total weight of bridge, anchorage, and approaches)
Following the completion of the 1986 project to eliminate excess material, the total weight of the Golden Gate Bridge — including its anchorages and approaches — is 0.8050 megatonnes. The two main cables in the spanning the bridge are spun out of a total of 129,000 km (80,200 mi) of wire.