Embankments on soft subsoil supported by piles or columns of different typehigh-strength horizontal “bridging” geosynthetic reinforcement on top of them have important advantages compared to “conventional” embankment foundation directly on the soft soil. Because the loads are being transferred to a firm substratum below the soft soil layer no settlement takes place, no consolidation time is required, there is no import / export of additional embankment soil to accelerate consolidation or to compensate the settlement, practically no additional settlement occurs under traffic etc. Due to these advantages the application of such solutions is growing permanently worldwide. A short critical overview of analytical design procedures is presented pointing out their plausibility and reliability. Some selected specific projects of geogrid-reinforced systems on piles or columns are shortly described and analyzed, pointing out new moments and lessons learned.