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Is 29,370,000 pounds as heavy as The Golden Gate Bridge?

It's about one-sixtieth as heavy as The Golden Gate Bridge
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The weight of The Golden Gate Bridge is about 1,770,000,000 pounds.
(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 1,770,000,000 pounds. The two main cables in the spanning the bridge are spun out of a total of 129,000 km (80,200 mi) of wire.
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