Bridges

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This Is How You Rebuild One Of The US’s Busiest Bridges Without Interrupting Traffic

1:00AM December 4, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

The Bay Bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland my not be as iconic as the Golden Gate but it’s a vital traffic artery nonetheless. So how do you reconstruct the span without delaying its 280,000 daily commuters? Very carefully. More »

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This Twisted Bridge Isn’t A Failure At All

2:30AM November 25, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

At first glance it looks like this bridge in the Netherlands was an engineering failure, not unlike the infamous Tacoma Narrows that collapsed. But this is how the architects designed and built it to look, and it works just fine. More »

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50 Tons Of Plastic Recycled Into Scottish Foot Bridge

1:40AM October 28, 2011 | Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK

The charming rural scene pictured above actually contains 50 tons of discarded water bottles and sandwich containers, which were blended up and refashioned into this 27m long plastic bridge. More »

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I Never Expected A Bridge Demolition Would Look Like This

8:40AM October 5, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Don’t expect a big explosion. This time-lapse video shows how to demolish a video with finesse and patience, over night. More »

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Crazy Swiss Swingers Suspend Hot Tub From Bridge

11:42AM October 4, 2011 | Mat Honan

This takes extreme hot-tubbing to new levels. A group in Switzerland suspended a makeshift Jacuzzi from the Gueuroz Bridge, 187m in the air. And they got in it! And hot-tubbed! More »

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These Daredevil Bridge Climbers Are Out Of Their Bloody Minds

7:40AM September 16, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

These kids think that climbing the cables of the Moscow Bridge in Kiev is a lot of fun. And they are probably right. I’m freaking out by just looking at the video. More »

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A Century Old Bridge, Acrobats, Digital Cameras And The Police

12:00AM July 14, 2011 | Sam Biddle

On Monday night I walked home instead of taking the train. But rather than the expected trot back, head filled with MP3s and little else, languorously drenched in sweat, I saw a woman dangling from the top of a bridge. More »

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Danish Trolls Are Playing Twinkly Music On This Pan Pipes Bridge

6:00PM June 29, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

“Who’s that tripping over my bridge?!” roared the troll. “It is I, the creator of elevator and massage room muzak, and I’ve come to have a tinkle on your bridge’s underbelly-pipes!” More »

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Would You Walk Across The Last Incan Handwoven Rope Bridge?

8:20AM June 24, 2011 | Casey Chan

This handwoven rope bridge is a remnant of the great Incan road system. Before, there would be hundreds of these rope bridges connecting cliffs and people. Now, this is the last one in existence. Would you walk across it? More »

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The Hunk Of Metal That Keeps Bay Bridge From Slipping Into Sea

1:30AM May 25, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

When the Eastern Span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge is replaced in mid-2013, it will be the world’s longest self-anchored suspension bridge. To hold the cables that hold the road, crews have just installed a gargantuan 450-ton cable saddle. More »