Since traffic is in constant motion on the bridge, it is not practical to be able to set a maximum number of vehicles.
Just to give you an idea as to how much weight it can handle, in the early part of the 20th century the bridge had a trolley line and an elevated train line operating on it along with passenger cars.
On the first day of opening of Bridge, a total of 1800 vehicles and 150,300 people crossed it
There are eight cables in the Brooklyn Bridge.
27 people died while building the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Brooklyn bridge was designed by John Roebling and the Roeblings helped in the process of building the bridge with many other workers.
He marched 21elephants across the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Brooklyn bridge is 1.13 miles long. If you want to walk it to Brooklyn and then back, its 2.26 miles long.
It took 600 people and 14 years to build the Brooklyn Bridge.
3.9 miles.
Almost a million cars each week use the Brooklyn Bridge.
It has two piers.
There are a total of 2,000 bridges and tunnels in New York City alone. In the Bronx there are five bridges - Pelham Bridge, Hutchinson River Parkway Bridge, Unionport Bridge, Eastern Boulevard Bridge, and City Island Bridge.
It took 600 people and 14 years to build the Brooklyn Bridge.