...nearly as long as the length of 100 school buses in the United States, which can be around 35 to 45 feet long.

https://www.newsweek.com/worlds-longest-bridge-trams-pedestrians-cyclists-kruunuvuori-finland-helsinki-11898238

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/29344154

Finland's longest bridge opens in Helsinki - but not for cars

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passenger@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 128d (3 replies)

Americans, are you ok?

CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 128d

No. Not at all.

Krusty@quokk.au · 6 pts · 128d

I had to convert that to bananas. About 7,000 7-inchers. Or 4000 ft long hot dogs.

Now it makes sense.

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 128d

Well obviously the buses are a stand-in for the Finnish trams. School buses are the closest thing to public transit that exists in parts of the US.

arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 128d (1 reply)

The funniest part about this is either they chose to specifically look up the length of a school bus to write this article or they just happen to be a school bus enthusiast excited to share their random school bus facts.

unreliable@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 128d

When you don't know meters, any measure is better that your imperial one. Bus, football fields, bananas, etc

bufalo1973@piefed.social · 7 pts · 128d (1 reply)

Anything but metric

meekah@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 128d

that is the community you're in, yes

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 128d (4 replies)

How many football pitches is that?

fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 128d (3 replies)
  • Approximately 11 Association Football pitches
  • Approximately 13 American Handegg pitches
  • Approximately between 6 and 9 "Aussie Rules" Football Pitches
  • Approximately 8 to 9 Gaelic Football Pitches
  • 12 Canadian Football Pitches
Zagorath@quokk.au · 2 pts · 128d (2 replies)

12 rugby league fields (measured try line to try line—i.e. disregarding the in-goal area).

fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 128d (1 reply)

Thank you! I am embarrassed to have missed that one.

(I also missed Rugby Union, but I'm less bothered by that)

Zagorath@quokk.au · 2 pts · 128d

You also missed rugby union, but from what I can see that doesn't have a particularly standardised length? In Australia I suspect most rugby union fields are probably 100 m because they just reuse the more popular rugby league grounds. Elsewhere it's probably the same as soccer.