North America There are significant skyway networks in many cities in
Canada, such as
Calgary and
Winnipeg, and in the
midwestern United States, such as
Minneapolis,
Saint Paul,
Des Moines,
Cedar Rapids,
Rochester, and
Duluth. Most networks in North America are privately owned. Notable exceptions are skyways in
Saint Paul and in
New York (
High Line), which are publicly owned. The
largest discontinuous network is in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and the
second largest continuous network is in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S, who held the record for the longest until 2025. One of the most famous similar cantilevered skybridges, that looks like uppered ship from the bird's-eye and submarine from the ground, known in Singapore's
Marina Bay Sands resort complex of skyscrapers. One of the most impressionable hanging pedestrian skybridges, supported by two giant hands,
Golden Bridge now attracts tourists in
Ba Na Hills near
Da Nang, Vietnam. In
Bangkok, Thailand there are more than 5.4 km of covered wide dedicated elevated skywalks with lighting. These were developed due to lack of proper sidewalks as well as street hawkers and local merchants taking advantage of any sidewalk space as makeshift
commercial real estate. Common reasons skywalks were built include to avoid street pollution, dust, wetness from food vendors and/or rain, potholes, long queues, crowds, and uneven pavement, supporting
urbanism but probably most importantly,
tourism receipts. Most skywalks connect to a
BTS station and utilize space underneath the rail line and BTS pillar supports. These skywalks have connector ramps which connect stations to malls seamlessly and are paid for by the malls themselves, otherwise the city and BTS fund walkway development. A 50km long extension project was shelved in 2011 due to funding issues, nevertheless the system is growing organically. In
Hong Kong, there are numerous foot bridge networks across the city. Particularly large networks exists around elevated or at grade
MTR stations and connections between malls and housing estates in
new town centers. The largest network spans
Admiralty,
Central and parts of
Sheung Wan districts in the CBD and consists of the
Central Elevated and
Central–Mid-Levels Walkway systems which link up over 40 major office buildings. The
Central–Mid-Levels walkway system is the longest outdoor covered
escalator system in the world according to
Guinness World Records.
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[10] Other large systems exist in
Tsuen Wan and
Mong Kok. The
Mumbai Skywalk Project,
India is a discontinuous network of over 50 km of skywalks in
Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India. The skyways connect
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations to important junctions, each 1 to 2 km in length. The first of these is a 1.3 km (0.8 mi) long skywalk connecting the suburban regions of
Bandra and
Kurla.
Europe in Munich, Germany
Brussels, Belgium has a skyway between the two
Belgacom Towers.
London has skywalks on the
Barbican Estate and
London Wall. The
City of London Pedway Scheme was devised as part of the post World War II reconstruction plans for London, it was put into effect mainly from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s and eventually abandoned by the 1980s.
Shad Thames has picturesque skyways between former warehouses, used in part to roll barrels between them.
Liverpool conceived a project of building skyways around the city centre during the 1960s. The project saw bridges linking key buildings around the city centre, such as
James Street railway station,
Moorfields railway station and
New Hall Place. Crime and low usage of the bridges stopped the project being fully imagined and by the end of the year 2000 nearly all of bridges had been removed, though evidence of the scheme still exists in some places.
Sheffield, South Yorkshire has a famous skyway between two blocks of flats in the
Park Hill Estate housing block with the phrase "
I Love You Will U Marry Me" graffitied onto it. It has since become the subject of songs by local singers and bands such as
Arctic Monkeys and
Yungblud. The twin towers of the
Highlight Towers in Munich, Germany are joined by two skyways made of glass and steel. The
Promenade Plantée in the
12th arrondissement of Paris, France includes pedestrian bridges and a linear park on an aqueduct of a former railway.
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