One of San Francisco’s most famous landmarks is the Golden Gate Bridge, but when the city’s residents talk about “crossing the bridge” that’s not the one they mean. Instead they’re referring to the Bay Bridge, or to give it its full name the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Spanning San Francisco …
Read More »Third Bosphorus link will be world's longest road/rail bridge
For thousands of years the city that’s now Istanbul, and was once Constantinople and Byzantium, has been the gateway between Europe and Asia. The only obstruction in that gateway is the mile-and-a-half channel of the Bosphorus straits, currently spanned by Istanbul’s two bridges. Now, to direct traffic around the city …
Read More »The 12th international specialised exhibition Roads. Bridges, Tunnels to open its doors on September 21, 2011
12th international specialised exhibition ROADS. BRIDGES. TUNNELS September 21–23, 2011 Mikhailovsky Manege (Winter Stadium) St. Petersburg, Russia Technical upgrade of the road infrastructure industry guarantees improvement of quality of construction, repair and maintenance of car roads, bridges and other transport infrastructure facilities. The Roads. Tunnels. Bridges exhibition is devoted to …
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