There are similar elevated roadways in the Rockies...it's a way to build a hiway with minimal destructive impact on the terrain..ordinary road construction tears hell out of the landscape...there's also something similar ( though less scenic) where I 45 goes through downtown Houston..it's called 'The Pierce Elevated'...
Nope..a bridge is a structure that "bridges" a gap of some sort..the sides of a river, a canyon, mainland to island, etc...an elevated highway is exactly that, a roadway that has been built up from the grade...