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Hoover Dam - Improving roads and bridges...
Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge...
Announced in 2004, bridge has been five years under construction. Due to be completed in 2010, the bridge has slowly been taking shape. Here is my shot, a record of this incredible bridge as it nears completion.
The people of Arizona and Nevada are patient folk. Since 1935 they have seen their local roads slowly but surely become more and more congested, most certainly at one particular point.
It won’t exactly be a slim bridge, but it and the other new sections of Highway 93 will have two lanes going each way over its five hundred and seventy five meter span. It may not be an idea to look down either if you suffer from vertigo. The road itself will be a dizzying two hundred and fifty six meters above the Arizona River. Although people will still be able to park and walk across it (if they dare) drivers will not be able to see the Hoover Dam. It is too close and too below to be seen by them. The project suffered a serious setback in 2006 when four cranes collapsed. This caused a massive two year delay while the project recovered. It is now back on track.
There will be seven approach spans all in all, two on the Arizona side and five on the Nevada side. The bridge is enormous, but its proximity to the Dam is less than half a kilometer. The longer, more proper and formal name is the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. Perhaps it is already known as The Mike and Pat locally. O’Callaghan was the Governor of Nevada in the nineteen seventies as well as a veteran of the Korean War.
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Ciao Geogre, amazing bridge over great dam, wonderful work, good POV, very well done, have a good week end, ciao Silvio
Hi George,
Wonderfull seen image with great bridge and a car, giving great idea of scale in the picture.
Nice contrast can be seen within the shot.
Well done.
best regards,
Paras
- kanton
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(5238) - [2009-11-07 15:09]
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Hello George!
Great bridge and an impressive construction!
the car gives an ideal scale,The blue sky and
the fine lighting makes more neat this industrial image!
Regards and tfs
Kostas
Hello George,
I would never have considered cropping a car in the f/g but it works very well, concentrating attention into the b/r/h corner, in the exact place to begin the journey over the bridge. The bridge links the f/g and the m/g, before taking the viewer to the rugged hills and pylons in the b/g.
Sharply focussed and nicely detailed.
Kind regards,
Bev :-)
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- harpya
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(9563) - [2009-11-09 3:11]
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Ciao George,
Real graphical image with a diagonal
vertical and horizontal lines
Also nice smooth colors,
High quality, and sharpness are perfecet.
Greetings my friend ...
Sergio
