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There's providing money for the I-35 bridge span collapsed in Minnesota, there's authorizing that FISA court that approves spy wire taps, a bill to fund the entire Department of Defense for the next year, and also a massive energy bill to make new efficient standards for electricity and buildings.
The executive summary of the 2001 Minnesota Department of Transportation report -- undertaken by the University of Minnesota's Department of Civil Engineering -- points to fatigue problems with the bridge's approach span, the segments that connect the main span of the bridge to land.
Jim Buchanan, the leader of Cumbria County Council, said the new footbridge bridge, which will span the River Derwent, would be an important boost for the community.
As part of a unique art project celebrating its 75th anniversary, the West span of the Bay Bridge has been outfitted with 25, 000 LED lights that will display a variety of undulating designs nightly for the next two years.
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The problems at Airbus are analogous to assigning two crews to build a bridge where each starts construction on the opposite banks of a river and, as the bridge comes together at mid-span, they discover that the two sides do not match.
As we gazed up at sweeping span of The Golden Gate Bridge nearby, we talked about new beginnings.
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The original idea for "The Bay Lights" came from Ben Davis, founder of the Words Pictures Ideas creative agency in San Francisco, which has helped brand the Bay Bridge as it builds its new eastern span.
Damage has also been caused to bridges by "scouring" - the wear caused by flotsam colliding with bridge piers below the waterline of the rivers they span.
Those trailers, in turn, can only cross from New Jersey to Staten Island by completely closing the westbound lanes of the Goethals Bridge, moving one at a time over the span at a maximum speed of 5 mph, Ms. Burtis said.
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Even the new quake-proof span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was built in China and floated over for assembly stateside.
That's how many LED bulbs the 46-year-old is using for "The Bay Lights, " an art installation that will illuminate the western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge for the two years, starting March 5.
The bridge, lowered into place in 2001, is the first to span the Irthing since Roman occupation.
Daniel Garber employs broken Impressionist brushstrokes in "The Bridge at New Hope" (1952), its steel-truss span evoking the serene industrial views of Charles Sheeler and the American Precisionists.
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With a central span of 1, 991 metres (6, 532 feet), the Akashi Kaikyo bridge, which opens on April 5th, between Kobe and Awaji Island in Osaka Bay, is bigger than Britain's Humber bridge and longer than the Great Belt East bridge that has just been built in Denmark.
The temporary fix is a four-lane span consisting of two 24-foot-wide structures to replace the collapsed portion of the bridge and allow drivers to cross the river at reduced speeds.
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Climbers head out from the BridgeClimb storefront at the foot of the bridge, proceed along a catwalk under the highway, climb several ladders and then walk up the curved span to the top.
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