Is it safe to say new york city has the most iconic bridges and tunnels?
>>1803147no
>>1803147It doesn't even have the most iconic bridges in the USA
>>1803147you really picked the george washington and not the brooklyn bridge as a potentially iconic bridge? kys
>>1803153>>1803155What other iconic bridges (plural) does London or SF have? None
>>1803147Biking on the GW bridge is so fucking scary man, there is BARELY enough room to have cyclists moving in both directions, and you share part of the bike lane with the suspension cables that connect right through the concrete.
90% of /n/ hates this city
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>>1803177Railway station bridge
>>1803177Don't forget the albert bridge
>>1803177Hammersmith Bridge is very popular.
Well Pittsburgh is called the city of bridges with 446 bridges, the most in any city in the worldhttps://www.worldatlas.com/cities/which-us-city-is-known-as-the-city-of-bridges.html
>>1803279You could have at least posted a cool one
bridge thread?
>>1803147Me likes Parisian bridges
>>1806539Pure /n/ stuff
>>1806539
>>1806541It's Bir Hakeim, not Hackeim
>>1803155
>>1803196because it's fucking stupid with the amount of tourists
>>1806639Damn, I thought that was a render at first
>>1803153that one fell down, nice try idiot
>>1806651nah just a really bad recoloring job
What do we think of tolling the east river bridges?
>>1806701yeah but they built it up again a few times, the kids know more than i do though
you'er all wrong
>>1806855
>>1806857
Not the most iconic one by one, but as a system, they hit a pretty damn nice aesthetic
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>>1806867Bonus points
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>>1806871
*age mogs everyone in this thread*
>>1806499>bridge thread?Luv me bridges. Simple as.Where I am, everything is steel or iron. These old Euro bridges are so dreamy.
Yeah, there's a watermark. But this perspective is so good.
For me, it's bridges with abrupt sharp curves in the middle
>>1808556Hmmmm, kinky
>his bridge doesn't lead right into a tunnellel pleb
>>1803153fpbp
Manchester Bridge in Pittsburgh, demolished 1970
LMAO! 3 BRIDGE!!13 BRIDGE!1
>>1803177London Bridge and Bay Bridge
>>1803147Brooklyn, GWB, and maybe the Williamsburg Bridge are iconic but NYC also has a lot of just average bridges. Like, even the Whitestone Bridge is just an ok bridge.
>over 150 years old and still kino
The first Point Bridge in Pittsburgh across the Monongahela River. Completed 1877, demolished 1927
>>1803156Well it is the world's busiest bridge so that's pretty iconic
>>1809485Not really. Visually it's unimpressive
>>1809485>Well it is the world's busiest bridgeBut is it?
One of the original viaducts on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Pittsburgh, notable for its steep angle and skew. It has since been demolished and replaced.
Wilksboro Avenue footbridge in Pittsburgh. It was built in the mid 1890s so residents could cross a ravine 120 feet deep to catch streetcars on the other side. It has fallen into disrepair and was closed in 2007 but afaik still stands.
>>1806650it's basically a theme park
Fuck it I'm down to post a bridge.It's not the biggest, loudest, or most well-known, but it is a beauty nonetheless.
>>1803279Pittsburgh master race
>>1809749now thats a sexy bridge!
>>1809509That's a fair critique - while GWB is busiest by # of vehicles, Howrah Bridge is close behind plus ridiculous number of pedestrians. I admit you have a point.
>>1809759>Pittsburgh master race
>>1803147new york is such an insular and parochial place that they cant conceive of anything outside of itself as being more than
>>1806524Serious question: why didn't they make it a single span suspension bridge? Why does it need the babby support in the middle?
>>1806650If you get a hotel and only venture out from 6AM-8AM and after 6PM it's actually very pleasant. The vast majority of tourists are from cruise ships and are only there for part of the day.
Bidwell Bar Bridge in California
>>1806499copied from a nyc bridge baka
This is the problem with any oblique grade-separated crossing, for highway, rail, or both. The skew increases the length of the viaduct a great deal and costs so much more than overpass structures that meet closer to perpendicular.
>>1803156>brooklyn bridge>>1808806>>1813367Copied from a Cincinnati bridge lol
Fabricated beam segment ready to be lifted into place at the 285/400 interchange in Atlanta last year
goat nyc bridge
>>1803196It's a city for small boats or walking. That's based.
>>1808819World's first suspension bridge too.
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, carries a narrowboat canal
>>1817556
>>1808819She's a chongus!
Speaking of chongus, the Tay Bridge collapse left such a scar in the collective consciousness of the Scottish people that they built subsequent bridges several magnitudes chongier than necessary for a while, and that's why the Forth Bridge rules so much.
Constantine in Algeria. City full of bridges because for whatever reason, we dicide to settle on massive rocks
To accommodate larger ships, the Bayonne Bridge's deck was raised about 60 feet through the existing arch span. Pretty awesome rebuild of a 1931 structure.
>>1817585Nice, I've never seen that one before.Is there a specific name for the "steel arch box truss" type (like Sydney Harbour Bridge)? It's such a good look.
>>1803279>>1809759>>1803436for me, it's the 16th street bridge
>>1803155the colour and setting help that bridge out a bit
>>1816665Wrong photo
>>1822127If it was still in its original state I'd be more open to the notion
OH N—
For me it's the humble arch bridge (bloukrans)
>>1824591that's gorgeous>>1806650there are almost no cruise ships nowadays,i went there during covid, was magical.also have this cooky dutch bridge
>>1824598and this onecaptcha is such a fucking blight of thisplace
>>1808806The Manhattan and Verrazano are underrated and works of beauty only forgotten cause they go between places no one gives a shit about. No reason to go to Bay Ridge unless you live in Bay Ridge and are going home or your really into Urban Republican strongholds where Italians, Greeks, Reform Jews and Arabs live in the harmony and Downtown Brooklyn's main destinations are Target and a regular Macy's.
>>1824497Looks good to me. Pass.
>>1808806>>1824735NYC LARGE BRIDGES FROM MOST UNDERRATED TO MOST OVERRATEDNOT FROM BEST TO WORSTJUST FROM MOST UNDERRATED TO MOST OVERRATED1. Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, formerly Triborough Bridge (great looking but largely ignored)2. Queensboro Bridge (great for engineering/historical reasons but unsightly but largely ignored)3. Whitestone Bridge (neat but largely ignored)4. Throgs Neck Bridge (lazy dog shit that's rightly ignored)5. George Washington Bridge (pretty good and adequately appreciated)6. Manhattan Bridge (extremely great and far less overrated than it could be)7. Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (meh looking but overrated)8. Williamsburg Bridge (great for engineering/historical reasons but a little unsightly and pretty overrated)9. Brooklyn Bridge (great and horrendously overrated)
>>1803279>a number too large for its modern tax base to maintain-ACK
>>1824598damn that is cool
>>1825028I don't know what PA's problem is but they have the shittiest roads in the US bar none
>>1808621>you'll never take a cliff's virginitywhy live at all
>>1811220Mighty pretty sight
>>1817575goddamn what mess and a waste of metal
>>1825190the thing is from 1882 mind you,they couldn't calculate stress that accurately back then and didn't have very well optimised safety standardsit's really quite an impressive feat of civil engineering
>>1825190Lighten up Francis
George Westinghouse Bridge
The world's largest brick-built bridge is 574 meters (1,883 ft) long, up to 78 meters (256 ft) tall and was erected between 1846 and 1851 in Saxony in Germany.
>>1825279Opinions?
>>1825279>>1825280Certainly no shortage of arches.Bretty good, ticks lots of boxes for me.
What are the advantages of precast concrete beams? Is it just cost? Longevity? Maintenance? Most modern overpasses use concrete beams, but I see some new overpasses that use steel beams as well. Concrete I-beams can't be easily cast into curved segments must play a factor as well, I presume
>>1825279>>1825280absolute fucking bridgekino, I'd visit but>Goymanyew
>>1827128My guess is the main upside is>cheap and easy to buildand that's it. From my experience they don't last all that long, but considering that nowadays everything is built with a limited lifespan, it fits neatly into the kafkaesque bureaucratic moloch that writes off these structures after 20-30 and then they just get rebuilt with our tax money.
I FUCKING LOVE LENTICULAR TRUSS BRIDGESTWO INTERSECTING WAVES JUST LOOK RIGHTBONUS POINTS FOR PRETTY END PIECES
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>>1809749Nice bridge
>>1803153NYC absolutely MOGS London in literally every single conceivable way
>>1817575Reminds me of that bridge in Quebec City that collapsed a couple times before they finally got it right lmao
>>1824599Would be nice if it weren't for that retarded offramp
>>1827657What would be better?
The Sangen Bridge in Japan is normally covered with water held behind a dam, but low water periodically reveals it in part or full. It carried a forest railway across a valley before the dam.
>>1827394According to idiots in NYC.
>>1831796He's right, you've got Tower Bridge and that's it
Come on people it may have gone to shit now but Portland is bridge city
>>1803147NYC has nice bridges but it's not even the best bridge in the state.
>>1831827The St. John's Bridge is beautiful, I wish it was painted in another color so it would have some contrast from all the trees around it. Looks as good as the Golden Gate imo
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>>1806650It's about to changehttps://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/07/01/venice-sets-date-for-introduction-of-ticketing-and-entry-fees-heres-what-you-need-to-know>>1806827
>>1835922I doubt adding a 10 euro day pass cost to Venice will reduce tourism, when a day pass to a furry convention is 30 USD and people buy it up.
>>1827695Just make an elliptic loop, takes less space and covers the lower parts of the ramp from rain.
>>1835928Maybe the tight corners serve to discourage cyclists from descending the ramp too quickly.
>>1835925yes, and even more furfags would show up if it was 15 USDget how it works?
rhode island time
pittsburgh's two wichert truss bridges
and the second bridge's predecessor
>>1838403This kind of architecture sucks so much
>>1838480yeah, well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion, manit does kinda look like a cg rendering or corporate website photo here, but irl it looks great, plus it's a great community space and who could hate a pedestrian bridge?
the new waldo-hancock bridge in maine
>>1824751TZ bridge should be up there maybe around #4 or 5, >but it's not in NYC I don't care, delete the Brooklyn and the VZ since one is only used by cops and the other is just a bunch of junk vendors now
What the fuck? This thread is still here?
Years ago it made sense to build combined road and rail bridges across large waterways because of the cost and low volumes of vehicular traffic. Most of them have had their roadways closed and replaced with newer spans just for cars. Pic is the old Vicksburg Bridge across the Mississippi River. Truck drivers would call each other on their CB radios to see if anyone was crossing and wait until opposing truck traffic was clear because the roadway was so narrow. The road deck was closed in 1998 but occasionally sees event use, KCS still uses the railroad line.
NYC resident, favorite bridge is the Hellgate.
>>1842521Yeah, I've been banned for a month, haven't even looked at the siteAnd several pinned /n/ threads are still in the catalog
>>1803153FPBP
>>1803196*moggs your bridge*Nothin' personnel
The old Cooper River Bridge in Charleston, SC. Built in 1929 and demolished in 2005
Huey Long Bridge near New Orleans after it was widened. Carries 6 lanes of road traffic and two railroad tracks.
>>1845416Cozy.Imagine the spiders tho
>>1803177I can't really think of a city that has at least two world famous bridges. Perhaps London, but even in that case people tend to mix up Westminster and London Bridge.
Laughery Creek Bridge in Aurora, Indiana
Harahan Bridge (left) and the Frisco Bridge at Memphis in 1975. The old automobile lanes on the Harahan Bridge were out of service by this time.
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>>1810103Serious answer, the engineers weren't sure if it would be stable to build a suspension bridge with multiple mainspans, and they didn't feel capable of building a single massive span at the time, so they built it as two separate bridges connected by the island anchorage for the cables.
>>1825142>he hasn't taken a cliff's virginity>>1827128>>1827217There's a couple theoretical advantages to prestressed concrete beams. They can have a better depth to span ratio than steel beams, enabling either more vertical clearance for a given span or a longer span between piers, reducing the number of piers required. They also don't need painting because the concrete is supposed to protect the reinforcing steel from corrosion and the prestresing is supposed to keep the concrete from cracking.
>>1854811Not a terribly convincing explanation.Do you get excited when a woman is 'supposed to' have sex with you?
The Sunshine Skyway is still there
>>1849487That looks awful, like the construction company was trying to leech as much work hours as possible from it
