A single Of The World’s Craziest Projects: The Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge. Your Ideas?

Hoover Dam

I never give much merit to e-mail forwards, who does? But a mate of mine a short while ago sent a bunch of shots of the Hoover Dam. As the photos slowly opened, 1 by one particular, I was taken aback. These photos were being not only of the dam, but of the colossal bypass bridge that is less than construction at the website. I experienced no notion this was even a imagined.  I had a quantity of reactions I’d like to share with you.

  1. Wow. It’s a marvel of fashionable engineering, and could/need to be an attraction itself (comments right here make it appear to be to be presently).
  2. Seriously? It further more ruins the natural integrity of the canyon and obstructs any look at of the dam.
  3. “Rubberneck Highway.” I cannot imagine this will be one of the much more safer bridges in the country (although safety measures have been built).
  4. Really? How essential was this undertaking?
  5. Stunning. The smooth strains of the arch spanning the wonderful Colorado River is, like the dam by itself, a attractive piece of concrete artwork.
  6. Bungee!

We’d like to hear your reactions to the project. Wherever among the the spectrum I seasoned, do you slide (I’m settling into #five, I imagine)? Weigh in with your reviews below.


A little background.

Design began in 2005 and need to be concluded in 2010. The bridge, fewer than one particular fifty percent kilometer from the dam, is now about 85% complete and figures say the price is at about seventy eight million pounds (just over twenty million for the highway, apart from the bridge). On August 27, 2009 the concrete arch grew to become no cost standing, signing up for the two sides alongside one another. The formal title of the bridge is the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge and some recent, fairly spectacular, pictures you can obtain ideal below.

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