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Post by duncan on Sept 11, 2020 21:00:28 GMT
I have been reading a novel which is set in Seattle, and several times there are comments about driving over floating bridges over Lake Washington. I have looked them up and they look really nice bits of construction. I guess they are really permanent Bailey Bridges.
I wondered if any of our well travelled forum members have driven across them or other bridges in other countries. Do they move about when the water is rough?
Which is your favourite bridge structure?
I would really like to see and drive over the Millau Bridge in the south of France.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2020 7:42:18 GMT
Never driven over a floating bridge but I do remember a clever little pedestrian bridge in Paris on the canal which had a bridge keeper and an outboard motor.
He just gated the bridge to pedestrians and motored it out the way when boats came along.
Quite cool really.
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Post by lollygagger on Sept 12, 2020 11:34:13 GMT
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Post by lollygagger on Sept 12, 2020 11:37:27 GMT
Not a bridge, but this.
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Post by patty on Sept 12, 2020 11:40:20 GMT
Not a bridge, but this. Thats beautiful
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Post by lollygagger on Sept 12, 2020 11:51:12 GMT
Not a bridge, but this. Thats beautiful Pont du Gard, a two thousand year old roman aquaduct. I walked over it 50 years ago when I was 10. 4ft wide water channel so not quite wide enough for a narrowboat. Flippin high, I walked through the channel which was a toll bridge for centuries after it's 600 years as an aqiaduct.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2020 11:53:24 GMT
I would really like to see and drive over the Millau Bridge in the south of France. The Millau is a viaduct isn't it? I'm not sure when a bridge becomes a viaduct there must be a length or number of support structures I suppose.
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Post by patty on Sept 12, 2020 14:17:32 GMT
I would really like to see and drive over the Millau Bridge in the south of France. The Millau is a viaduct isn't it? I'm not sure when a bridge becomes a viaduct there must be a length or number of support structures I suppose. I looked in Google.... The difference lies in their primary use, position and construction. A viaduct usually refers to long bridges or series of bridges connected to one another by arch bridge structures that carries a road or a railway across a valley or a gorge. ... Bridges, on the other hand, are usually built over bodies of water.
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