Bridges, Arches, Columns, Tunnels and Walls

We went to Sentosa Island on these.

Looks like a WPA bridge.

Most people have forgotten that the WPA built bridges.

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Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Inlaws took us over that bridge years ago to Delaware. All of a sudden last night I woke up remembering what happened on that tour. I had a wish to see part of Delaware which once was New Sweden as I had read a book about it before leaving for USA. But our inlaws took us to look at some residence owned by Spiro Agnew.
Anyway I was close to murder....

I'd never heard of WPA bridges until I googled them and found the following - really interesting subject!

'The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects,including the construction of public buildings and roads. In much smaller but more famous projects the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.

Almost every community in the United States had a new park, bridge or school constructed by the agency. '

My identical cousin lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. He's somewhat well known around the chandlers and crabshacks of Eastern Virginia, Maryland and southern Delaware and when traveling through that region I hear his name frequently. Apparently we're so alike that we even lurk at similar roosts.

I have a memory from the fog of infancy of crossing the bridge from Baltimore to the Eastern shore (William Preston Lane, Jr. Memorial Bridge ) in my uncles Cadillac convertible when the main span was opened. I remember my older sisters terror. I thought that was funny and couldn't stop laughing at her.

Boy, I wished I had stopped laughing--payback is a bitch--especially from your older sister.

BTW in my sister's defense, the Preston is considered the ninth scariest bridge in the US.



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My inlaws told me that there is? was? a police station right by the bridge and if someone would be too scared to drive across a police would do it for you. Followed by another policecar taking the police back.
Is that correct?

Transportation departments usually provide this service at all transportation linchpins. I've heard it's available--I've even seen it at the Eisenhower Tunnel.

The last time I rode the Preston was on a motorcycle---it was a beautiful sunny day and riding along in the sealanes was wonderful.



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I didn't know that. (Now you tell me..) I can't drive tunnels, except for a couple of relatively short ones on bright days, being night blind with very long dark adaptation. I remember having to pull over in Italy so my husband could take the tunnel that showed up as a surprise mid my turn to drive. I've been trying to remember, during this thread, where exactly that tunnel was. It's hard to look up tunnels in Tuscany, there being scads of natural ones that people like to go to.

Ya gotta remember they are civil servants, so don't try to get them to hurry.

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Plus, that is surely not all u.s. tunnels, just the major linchpins.

Fort Christina, New Sweden, by Wilmington, Delaware -guess that goes under Walls

When we drive to my Austrian sisters-in-law, there's a small stretch of highway (8 kilometres) with 7 tunnels:
Talübergang Steyr (278 m), Klauser Tunnel (2144 m), Talübergang Bertlgraben (188 m), Traunfriedtunnel (441 m), Speringtunnel (2852 m), Talübergang Rettenbach (81 m), Falkensteintunnel (783 m)

... plus a couple of more tunnels

You can built houses on a (town)wall ...


Hirschhorn, Hessia, Germany


... or rebuilt the wall ...


Meersburg, Lake Constance, Baden-Würtemberg, Germany


... or built the houses behind the wall


Nördlingen, Donau-Ries district, Bavaria, Germany,

Wow, that's a lot. Is it fun for you to drive?

Most of those tunnels are toll-free, so it is quite a bit of fun.
(When I drove the rout the very first time, I thought, they built tunnels instead of bridges at some places. Which actually is true - but cheaper.)

That is really interesting and looks so nice too.

Entrance to amphitheater, Lucca - my photo:




More of the walls, google images:

The Berlin Wall, with graffiti by Thierry Noir



More about Thierry Noir and his works at Berlin Wall: Graffiti in the death strip: the Berlin wall's first street artist tells his story

Still standing and still in everyday use - the arched wooden bridges built in China nearly 1,000 years ago demonstrate the true skill of the master craftsmen who first constructed them.

These stunning structures show how not every part of China has been altered by its remarkable rate of development.

The bridges, suspended between two banks of lush greenery and built from the wood of the trees surrounding them, are still a fully functional part of life in the Fuijan and Zhejiang provinces along China's south east coast.



Still in use: A man walks across the Yangmeizhou timber arch lounge bridge, in the Kengdi village of Shouning County, which was built during the Ming Dynasty.



Idyllic: The Luanfeng Bridge, a timber arch lounge bridge, in the Xiadang village in south east China.

I would say you are really walled in here - a very interesting city planning.