Building Bridges: Stunning Chain Bridge Video Captures Viewers

The Chain Bridge via Wiki Commons

It was brought to our attention by news-source Daily Hungary, that the Hungarian trade magazine Magyar Építők (Hungarian Builders) has a particularly cool You Tube channel, which covers videos of the construction and reconstruction of local structures, from monuments to bridges and castles.

Their recently posted video (below) is particularly compelling. Therein you can find the still-under-renovation Lanc Híd (Chain Bridge) in Budapest being tested for its load capacity with 24 trucks, weighing 20 tons each. That all the trucks are new and painted in a uniform green has a striking effect, looking like the shoot of some dystopian film.

The test signals the approach of the bridge’s reopening - for vehicles in December 2022 and for pedestrians in August 2023. The bridge has long been a staple location for local and international films, being featured in the films Spy (2015), Gemini Man (2019), I Spy (2002), Gloomy Sunday (1999), and many more.

But it’s worth pointing out that there is also a film (Híd Ember, or Bridgeman) about the man who was responsible for the bridge’s initial construction, Count István Széchenyi (indeed, the bridge’s official name is the Széchenyi Bridge). With the plans of British engineer William Tierney Clark, and supervised Scottish engineer Adam Clark, the bridge was completed a decade after its inception. At the time, the Chain Bridge was the second-longest suspension bridge ever built and proved one of the age’s great engineering feats. The bridge served to connect Buda and Pest, and brought the two separate communities into economic competition with one another, spurring huge growth for the city on a whole.

We doubt even Széchenyi could have imagined 24 green trucks rolling across his bridge, but we’re here with the video to prove it. So, without further adieu.

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