The Hover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh And Aaaah
There’s not much to say about these images of the Hover Dam Bypass except expletives mixed with a dozen shades of amazement. It’s not the longest or the tallest or the biggest or the complexest, and still, it’s stunning:
These images of the bridge — called the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge — were shot in September 2009 as the 323m twin-rib concrete arch advances towards its late 2010 opening. The $US240 million, 610m bridge is part of a larger project, a 5.6km corridor that begins in Clark County, Nevada and ends in Mohave County, Arizona. [Hoover Dam Bypass via Industrial Interface via DRB]
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The drive over the new bridge should be pretty spectacular… but how many tourists will stop in the middle of the bridge to take photos ?
But I’ll miss driving across the actual dam wall – it was something I remember well from the 60’s, and have repeated several times more reecently – even if there are many small bumper benders every day!
Pretty sure you mean Hoover dam there.
I hope when they were putting the main towers in they didn’t drill into the Allspark…..that would cause ALL sorts of trouble!!!