"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 bridge-phobia to cross the ...
Drivers would also feel uncomfortablewhile driving across the bridge in fog. Look downand you will see the wild water below--the view istruly terrifying.【汉语对照】你敢在这些桥上走吗?1.美国科罗拉多州,皇家峡谷大桥这座桥始建于1929年,在(科罗拉多州)卡农市。2003年前这座桥保持了世界最高桥的纪录...
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...
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...
I threw my hands up, looked out across the diamond water and thought, what a way to blast into this new day. This gesture startled Donna. She swerved, told me to put my fucking window up or she was going to stop the fucking car. Right there. Stop it in the midst of oncoming traf...
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 ...
Bridges, causeways, and underwater tunnels are all passageways that allow travel above, across, and beneath bodies of water such as rivers, bayous, and bays. On the other hand, these artificial structures can create barriers or obstacles to wildlife that live underneath and above these waters....
Chesapeake Bay Bridge - Virginia This 23 mile bridge and tunnel originally opened in 1964, with another two lanes added in 1999. The tunnel portion goes underwater for almost a mile, allowing boats to travel across Chesapeake Bay. Manchac Swamp Bridge - Louisiana ...
Covered bridges evoke nostalgia in the American landscape. In your travels, have you ever driven or walked across one? If so, you might have wondered why it was covered with a roof. Over the years people invented many stories to explain covered bridges, including that their shape, which rese...
To get over the Bay Bridge, Ayers called a bridge-crossing service. Ken Medell arrives to drive her and her car across. Last year, 4,000 drivers asked for the service - 11 every day. In other states, fearful drivers can be driven across theTappan Zeein New York, theMackinaw Straitsin...