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Starrucca Viaduct is a stone arch bridge that spans Starrucca Creek near Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, in the United States.Completed in 1848 at a cost of $320,000 (equal to $11,268,923 today), it was at the time the world's largest stone railway viaduct and was thought to be the most expensive railway bridge as well.
Kentucky's enacted six Year Road Plan includes $190 million for construction between KY-425 and US-60 in Fiscal Years 2023 through 2026, as well as $73.4 million to advance work on the bridge itself ($50 million in FY-2023 to complete the design, and 43.4 million in FY-2025 and 2026 for right-of-way acquisition and utility relocation). [26]
The roadway for the approach structures was supported during construction by an underlane self-launched movable scaffolding system (MSS), [21] and is the first project in California to use a MSS. [22] The MSS was designed to bridge the 235 ft (72 m) span between piers and to support the concrete as it was poured for each span. Once the concrete ...
Near the center, the bridge rises in an arc to provide 65-foot (20 m)-high clearance for boat passage. The remainder of the bridge is considerably closer to the water surface. The new bridge does not cross Pigeon Key. The total length of the new bridge is actually 35,862 ft (10,931 m) or 6.79 miles (10.93 km), and is shorter than the original.
A plan to build a massive monkey-breeding facility that could eventually house 30,000 long-tailed macaques in a small Georgia city has sparked a multipronged legal battle pitting residents against ...
The first Carquinez Strait Bridge in Vallejo, CA, built in 1927, was a back-to-back 1,100 foot cantilevered truss. The bridge was closed temporarily in November 2021 for repairs, causing extreme traffic problems for residents of the surrounding community. It reopened in December 2021 with no plans for closures in the foreseeable future.
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That included extending 112th Avenue over I-96 and placing a bridge over the M-231 ramp for I-96. The last item on the five-year plan list was the 2.5 miles (4.0 km) running from the Grand River to I-96. That construction was also projected to begin in 2012. [10] Grand River bridge approaches under construction in March 2014