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Butte County, California Bridges: Route 162 Bridge across the Middle Fork of...
August 2015 (39.54987 Degrees, -121.42988 Degrees) Lake Oroville BridgeThis week's bridge crosses over the Middle Fork of the Feather River. The water level is so low now that the bridge looks like it...
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Butte County, California Bridges: Enterprise Bridge Carrying Lumpkin Road...
August 2015 (39.53636 degrees, -121.33944 degrees) Enterprise BridgeEvery river flowing out of the Sierras (except for the Smith River near California's northern border) is dammed at least once before...
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Butte County, California Bridges: State Route 70 Bridge across the West...
The Sacramento is the largest river in California and the Feather River is its principal tributary. We previously visited bridges on the Feather River in Yuba County. However, the really big bridges...
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Phoenix Bridge Company
After posting thousands of pictures of bridges it's not surprising that I occasionally receive emails with corrections to my blog. In 2010 I showed a bridge in Arequipa, Peru which I incorrectly...
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Unbuilt Bridges (5)
It's often beneficial to connect islands, countries, or even continents together. We've previously studied how Japan connected its four main islands together at the end of the twentieth century....
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Unbuilt Bridges (4)
The most popular fantasy after 'bridges with buildings' in 'Unbuilt America,' (by Sly and Stone) are 'bridges with pipes.' If a building bridge represents the fantasy of traveling while staying at home...
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Unbuilt Bridges (3)
The book 'Unbuilt America' by Allison Sky and Melissa Stone illustrates a variety of futuristic fantasies for the United States. A recurring image is a building combined with a bridge. In the past, the...
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Strange Uses for Bridges (2)
Rendering of Juncal Viaduct with Turbines (Oscar Soto, ZECSA)My sister send me an article from Smithsonian Magazine about installing wind turbines on bridges to create electricity. In the drawing...
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Unbuilt Bridges (2)
Visionary artists often come up with bridge designs to illustrate their ideas and/or philosophies. Sometimes their bridges are built during their lifetimes, or after they're gone, but usually they...
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Unbuilt Bridges (1)
I was reading a book, "AAD - Algorithm-Aided Design" by Arturo Tedeschi and on the last page was a computer generated drawing for a 'Cloud Bridge.' This picture reminded me of the many other lovely...
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Strange Uses for Bridges
There are a number of strange uses people put to bridges (other than crossing over a river). In the photo above Di Mainstone, a British artist, films Georgina Hampton Wale carrying a 'digibow' and...
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Los Angeles County, California Bridges
I thought I'd discuss some interesting new bridges that are being built in the Los Angeles Area. The GoldLine Bridge (53 3068) shown above was built in 2012 and carries LA Metro tracks across State...
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Riverside County, California Bridges: I-10 Bridges across Tex Wash
July 20, 2015 (33.70467, -115.44221) Tex Wash BridgesLast week a flash flood washed out the eastbound Tex Wash Bridge (56 0576L/R), which is one of two 3-span concrete slab bridges that carry I-10...
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Contra Costa County, California Bridges: Buchanan Field Viaduct across the...
July 2015 (37.9810 Degrees, -122.0423 Degrees) Buchanan Field ViaductSince I haven't written in a while, I thought I'd take advantage of a recent field trip I made to the Buchanan Field Viaduct (28...
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Los Angeles County, California Bridges: Vincent Thomas Bridge across the...
August 1999 (33.74944 Degrees, -118.27111 Degrees) Vincent Thomas BridgeThe last highway bridge onto Terminal Island is the Vincent Thomas Bridge. It's a 6000 ft long suspension bridge with a 1500 ft...
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Los Angeles County, California Bridges: Schuyler Heim Bridges across the Back...
June 2015 (33.7661 Degrees, -118.2394 Degrees) Schuyler Heim BridgesThe photo above was taken 16 years ago of the new (gray) Badger Street Lift Railroad Bridge next to the old (green) Schuyler Heim...
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Los Angeles County, California Bridges: Gerald Desmond Bridge across Cerritos...
August 1999 (33.7645 Degrees, -118.2214 Degrees) Gerald Desmond BridgeWe last viewed the Gerald Desmond Bridge in my blog of March 3rd, 2009. It's a steel through truss arch bridge that was built in...
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Los Angeles County, California Bridges: San Pedro Bay Bridges
(33.7580 Degrees, -118.2475 Degrees) San Pedro Bay BridgesAfter passing under the Queensway Drive Bridges we leave the Los Angeles River and enter San Pedro Bay. The Bay is dominated by Terminal Island...
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Los Angeles County, California Bridges: Queensway Drive Bridges across the...
August 1999 (33.76000 Degrees, -118.19833 Degrees) Los Angeles River BridgesWe've finally reached our destination, the last bridges across the Los Angeles River at it's mouth in San Pedro Bay. The...
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Los Angeles County, California Bridges: Ocean Blvd and Shoreline Drive...
August 1999 (33.7673 Degrees, -118.2051 Degrees) Los Angeles River BridgesA few more miles and we've reached the City of Long Beach near the mouth of the Los Angeles River. Note the concrete lined...
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