Over the last year, the NTSB identified 68 bridges built before 1991 that don't have a "current vulnerability assessment." The recommendations were issued to 30 owners of the 68 different bridges across the country, NTSB officials announced Thursday. ...
they have a Drive Over Service that will take you across. This is a dual-span bridge that stretches over the Chesapeake Bay and reaches a height of 186 feet. Most will say the height isn't the problem, it's the weather. If fog and heavy weather hit, you will be blind...
Life 360 looks at bridges. "Heavy Lifting" looks at efforts to make San Francisco's Bay Bridge safer for earthquakes and how the bridge is being taken apart and put together again even as traffic flows across it. "A Bridge Too Far" talks to a state trooper who helps people with severe...
offices with a nearby prisonin the center of the iconic Italian city of Venice. Built in early years of 17th century, this bridge immediately captured the imagination of the public, spawning several myths and serving as an inspiration to several similar bridges that were built across the world....
The Lake Ponchartrain Causeway Bridge is a 24-mile-long structure that connects New Orleans with Mandeville, Louisiana, across Lake Ponchartrain. Police have had to rescue anxious drivers who panic while crossing the bridge and stop their cars on the roadway. ...
On March 27, 1968, a man walking across the bridge fell through an undiscovered hole in the concrete sidewalk and nearly fell through to the river.12He barely managed to grab the edge and pull himself back up to safety. The issue of the bridge’s deterioration, coupled with the collapse ...
on the Delaware River. The first bridge built by the CNJ across Newark Bay was a wooden trestle with a steel swing span that opened on a central pier. It carried two tracks and opened in 1864; this line ended at theCentral Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, located on the Hudson River wa...
there’s a new crisis, a new adventure, a new friend, a new terror. Few of those have anything to do with cycling, but still I’m “Computing Across America,” pedaling furiously when not hunkered down over a keyboard trying to put out the fires of this intrinsically unstable but wild...
There are two exceptions. The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which stretches 4.1 miles across Tampa Bay, is considered by some to be the seminal American bridge of the age. Paul Goldberger ofThe New York Timeswrote that “it may well rank as the most impressive piece of large scale bridge design ...
(13.2 km). The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge's main section, which links Hong Kong with Macau and Zhuhai, China, across the Pearl River estuary, consists of a 14.2 mi (22.9 km) bridge and 4.2 mi (6.7 km) tunnel; theChesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnelhas two 1-mi (1.6-km) tunnels along...