Bridges, Arches, Columns, Tunnels and Walls

Here you can listen to Under the Bridges of Paris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6paByA6wBSE

Bridge and tunnel:

The Müngsten Bridge near Solingen (highest steel railroad bridge in Germany) with the human powered transporter bridge below it

Bridge of new ill repute: the addition to the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Don't get me started - the SF Chronicle has chronicled the shortcomings. The least shortcoming, compared to apparent poor decision making by the builders re parts substitutions, is that I find it ugly in some photos, not to mention there is no sense to it with regard to the other part of the bridge. Lots of clamour going on in the Bay area about the safety shortcomings. It's a vital bridge.

recent article from the Sacramento Bee:
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/02/26/6192562/caltrans-says-critics-of-broken.html?storylink=lingospot_related_articles


Laura A. Oda / Bay Area News Group/MCT
Morning commuters make their way across the new eastern half of the Bay Bridge in Oakland.



Like many before me, I love the Golden Gate Bridge. One of my "hundred year old" aunt's brothers worked on it when it was being built. But that's not why I love it - I've always found it a joy to ride across, a beauty thrill, and I've crossed it a lot. On the other hand, I was never a commuter to the city. But I also didn't mind the Bay Bridge, despite the traffic jams to get on to it that I used to experience.

I may be wrong about the ugly part, as I haven't driven it - it's a first impression.

The Golden Gate, crossing SF Bay -



The Pacc and me at Crissy Field, Golden Gate in background. Damn, what a ladylike pose.

Not a picture, but something rather sad, and quite outrageous.



http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11072441.Newly_unearthed_Roman_remains__could_be_used_as_foundations_for_new_homes_/

Here are some of the Medieval walls in my home town of Southampton.


That's Westquay shopping centre in the background.

gahhhhhh.

Thanks, interesting, izzy. I'd say beautiful but not quite. I get you have not all that much land and layers of history.

edit - I get you have not a giant land and do have layers of history. I misspoke, bad wording.

New River Gorge Bridge in West, by Gawd, Virginia.

This is a bridge jumping bridge--its 900 feet over the New River. Every Day someone jumps off of this bridge, and once a year there's a bridge jumping day.

Or you can use the catwalk.

Joshua Chamberlain Bridge

Bangor Maine


Hikers raise $27,000 to support Bangor Area Homeless Shelter
http://bangordailynews.com/2013/04/14/news/bangor/hikers-raise-27000-to-support-bangor-area-homeless-shelter/

The Eads Bridge in St Louis, the Arch in the background. This is the bridge that made the West possible. This is the first place where the railroads crossed the Mississippi and made St Louis the gateway.



The 1875 Eads



100th Anniversary



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Rex: The National Capitol Columns located at the United States ...

Did they run out of money after the foundation work?

Nada Tunnel in Nada, Kentucky--one of the nicest tunnels--the Nada Tunnel takes you out of the Red River into Nada.







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Berlin Wall being buildt

The Berlin Wall being torn down



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Now there's a photo. Ordinary in the doing, and chilling in the extreme.

So ironic with the coca cola sign.

Yes!


In the meantime, I should add that as a US citizen I am not at all for a border wall. (don't get me going).