4/13/2012

Bridges in USA

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Bridges in the USA

***** USA
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity


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Explanation


Bay Bridge San, Francisco

Brooklyn Bridge, New York

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco


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The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge
(known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a pair of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay of California, in the United States. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road route between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries approximately 270,000 vehicles per day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the world.
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The Brooklyn Bridge

is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. With a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), it was the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge.

Originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River Bridge, it was dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name from an earlier January 25, 1867 letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle,[6] and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its opening, it has become an icon of New York City, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972.
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San Francisco – Golden Gate Bridge
a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1, the structure links the city of San Francisco, on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to Marin County.
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San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge



photo : Phil McGrew, 04.12.12 / Flickr


piercing
this bridge, lightnings'
crackle


Shared by Louis Osofsky
WKD, facebook 2012


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Brooklyn Bridge



source : Andreas Feininger


skyline fog ---
tourists on the Brooklyn Bridge
view each other






clear Winter night---
looking at the skyline
from the Brooklyn bridge


- Shared by Fred Masarani -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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photo : by Francisco Companioni, 16 April 2012;
{ sunrise, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco }


some day,
bridge, the echo in
the fog bank
will cease, leaving you
to ride the sun


- Shared by Louis Osofsky -
Joys of Japan, 2012




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