Edit 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 ...
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. ...
For many people, bridges cause fear and panic. There’s even a term for it:gephyrophobia. A related condition,acrophobia, is an extreme fear of heights, another issue people experience when driving across or doing construction, maintenance, or inspection work on bridges. Experts say the two c...
No need to worry crossing this bridge. Ifyour anxiety kicks inat the foot of this 4.3-mile span, 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...
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 ...
developed the use of wire cables and stiffening trusses. His first completed suspension bridge spanned the Niagara River in 1854. He also designed theBrooklyn Bridgeacross the East River (completed 1883), which was the world's longest suspension bridge at the time of its construction, having a...
in: the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad and the South Side Railroad both constructed terminals. By 1884 all the railroads had been merged into the Long Island Railroad. Passengers could travel via the Lower Montauk Branch across the Dutch Kills to Penny Bridge (which provided access ...
Roads District,was tasked with providing field inspection, material sampling, and an in-depth corrosion condition evaluation of the HamptonRoads Bridge Tunnel (HRBT) facility, which carries I-64 traffic across the navigational channel at the mouth of theChesapeake Bay from Norfolk to Hampton, ...
across the river. The idea of bridging the river never seemed improbable, for the bridges were always there, as surely as the sun rose and set each day. As I grew older, I began to see the bridges in another light: It dawned on me how remarkable it was that mankind should have the...
In 1885 his design for an arch bridge across the Harlem River north of High Bridge was selected and opened in 1889 as the Washington Bridge. He partnered with the Pencoyd Iron Works in 1886. The company, founded in 1857 and located along the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania, had started ...