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An engineering marvel takes shape near Hoover Dam
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Posted on 02/07/2010 2:31:49 PM PST by JoeProBono
Less than a mile downstream from one of the nation's best-known engineering marvels, the Hoover Dam, a second is taking shape.
A soaring 1,900-foot span across the gorge created by the Colorado River on the Arizona-Nevada border should be completed this fall, eliminating much of a sometimes hourlong bottleneck as traffic creeps over the dam on the key route between Phoenix and Las Vegas.
When it is scheduled to open in November, motorists will cross the longest bridge of its kind in the western hemisphere, with towering concrete columns that rise above a twin rib arch beneath them.
"It's pretty spectacular," said Sidney Spears, a 68-year-old retired truck driver from South Dakota, sitting at the dam and admiring the bridge 1,500 feet away. "This day and age, they are only limited by their imagination."
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Travel
KEYWORDS: arizona; bridge; bridges; coloradoriver; hooverdam; infrastructure; jpb; nevada
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To: JoeProBono
So what costs more the bridge or the dam?
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:34:34 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(concerned conservative.)
To: JoeProBono
I drive over Hoover Damn during occasional trips to Vegas. I have seen the new bridge take shape from its inception. Pretty amazing. An engineering marvel for sure.
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:34:55 PM PST
by
libh8er
To: libh8er
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:35:20 PM PST
by
libh8er
To: JoeProBono
Ikes... Looks like something from a nightmare I had as a kid, about crossing a huge bridge... How much of an earthquake would that thing withstand anyway?
To: mountainlion
I think they got a Bridge loan for a lot of dam money.
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:39:22 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: Vendome
Will it be named for Harry Reid?
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:42:26 PM PST
by
BARLF
To: JoeProBono
Here's a snap I took from the car on my last trip in January.
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:45:13 PM PST
by
libh8er
To: JoeProBono
An American engineering marvel:
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:45:43 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
To: BARLF
Damn Harry or Reid?-Damn!
Take your choice.
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:45:44 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: JoeProBono
how do you top Hoover Dam?
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:46:24 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
To: Vendome
They had a show about the bridge on see span.
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:47:37 PM PST
by
Fresh Wind
("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
To: libh8er
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:47:59 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: FormerACLUmember
That’ll be fun in a 7.0 quake!
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:48:56 PM PST
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:49:51 PM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM where are you?)
To: libh8er
LUCKY! I want to drive by it before it’s finished.
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:50:08 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: JoeProBono
Anybody taking bets on how long before the first fool jumps off?
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:50:12 PM PST
by
rottndog
(WOOF!!!!!)
To: libh8er
Do they have any special security checks for traffic going across the dam?
To: Las Vegas Ron
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:50:40 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: mountainlion
One more....
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posted on
02/07/2010 2:52:43 PM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM where are you?)
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