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The presented footbridge, with a main span length of 90 m, is one of the longest cable-stayed bridge structures made of glued-laminated wood. The footbridge joints two countries, Poland and Slovakia, and has been erected in a very attractive tourist area. Inhabitants waited for a footbridge almost 100 years, from 1914 to 2006. On 12 August 2006 about 1000 people (inhabitants and tourists) took part in the Opening Ceremony. On the last Sunday of summer holidays 2006 about 11000 pedestrians crossed the border during one day, as notified by the frontier police. It shows, how this footbridge is important in this region. The design and erection processes as well as experimental investigations concerning dynamical behaviour of this footbridge are described in this paper.

Highway ring road of Wrocław is a very important part of an urban communication network which is now under modernization work. It will connect the existing A4 highway with the S8 expressway being under construction. The ring road is 26.765 km long. Forty bridge structures were designed along or over it. Total length of highway bridges and viaducts is more than 6 km, that is equivalent to 22% of the whole route. The longest bridge is a concrete cable-stayed structure over the Odra River. The river flows in its main bed, while inland navigation uses additional channel with two locks. There is an island located between the river and the channel. The planned bridge is 1742 m long and consists of: south flyover 610 m long with continuous eleven span prestressed concrete box structure; main bridge 612 m long with two separate decks connected to a single concrete H-shaped pylon; north flyover 520 m long with continuous girders made of prestressed concrete.