Bridge News
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Westwood -
On July 1, 2014, a truck carrying $100,000 worth of lobster crashed into the East Street Bridge in Westwood, Massachusetts. The incident occurred around 4:50 a.m.
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New York -
Direct Divide is a band with diverse origins. Their music is a product of what they draw from our experiences and where they're from, whether it’s the lights and chaos of Las Vegas, the somber Seattle winters, the Sao Paulo beaches, or the burning hills
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Kerch -
A ferry is the only way to cross the small strip of sea that separates Ukraine's Kerch peninsula in the far east of restive Crimea from Russia.
In the Media
by Bertrand De Saisset (AFP)
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How did a sea of fish freeze in Norway? What compelled an architect to build an upside-down bridge? What should we know about the Singularity? We answer these questions in this week's TopFinds.
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Fort Worth -
Over the weekend professional BMX stunt rider, Mat Olson, rode his bike over the arches of a bridge in Fort, Worth, Texas.
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Jilin -
In the northeast of China, Jilin City is divided by a river that is bordered by colorful buildings which look even more wintery in their first cover of snow.
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Sonning -
Entertainer Uri Geller's home town has a mystery going on. A red letter box has appeared in the middle of a bridge which the local postman says is not an "operational posting facility." And its pretty easy to see why.
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Over the years there have been cases of people getting married to some weird and wonderful things. It’s not uncommon to find a devoted owner marrying a pet, but this recent case will raise more than few eyebrows.
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Marble Falls -
They wanted to demolish a bridge in Marble Falls, Texas, USA. The video shows the whole process of the demolition, including a rather impressive slow motion version of the series of explosions.
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Vancouver -
Two people are dead after a car and a city bus collided head-on on the Lions Gate Bridge on Wednesday just before midnight. The bridge connects Vancouver near Stanley Park to North Vancouver.
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Saskatoon -
The Canadian city of Saskatoon is quaint, friendly and also boasts some impressive sculptures and street art downtown. Here are some of the most impressive pieces I came across during a recent visit.
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Harbin -
A bridge that had just been built in November in China has collapsed. At the time of this report, three people are dead and five are injured.
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Prague -
A 21-year-old Czech girl who allegedly spent hours smoking super-strength marijuana climbed a 40ft electricity pylon while hallucinating that it was a bridge.
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Vladivostok -
Footage of a group of Russian teenagers scaling one of the tallest structures in Russia without safety equipment has been posted online. The clip shows the three taking photos from the top of the 1,000 ft high Russky Island Bridge near Vladivostok.
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A freighter, the Delta Mariner, carrying space rocket components from Decatur, Alabama, to Cape Canaveral, Florida, for NASA, and the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, got stuck along the Tennessee River after it hit a bridge on Thursday.
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Tarrytown -
As plans move forward to replace the aging Tappan Zee Bridge in N.Y., not only must plans be developed to build a new bridge, but also provisions made for what to do with the old.
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Members of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet are offering to give away a bridge that is obsolete, but has historic value. They are even offering to dismantle and deliver the bridge to its new location free of charge.
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In a case of unbelievably odd but somehow true news, 2 brothers managed to dismantle and steal a bridge to sell as scrap metal.
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Aarhus -
Pedestrians may be surprised by the sounds they hear as they approach a foot-bridge in Denmark, for a large interactive wind chime now hangs beneath the span.
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Toronto -
Back in 1793 when Fort York in Toronto came into being there would have been no need of a Fort York Pedestrian and Cyclist Bridge to the waterfront. The fort at that time guarded the entrance of the bay of Lake Ontario.
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Ajax -
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) of the Toronto Police has been called after a man ended up below the Harwood Avenue bridge over Highway 401 in Ajax this weekend during a traffic stop.
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Sherbrooke -
Sherbrookers have been deprived of this crucial bridge for nine months. Cars had to make detours and wait patiently in traffic jams or find alternative routes. Finally completed, the Montcalm Bridge welcomed its first automobiles on Saturday.
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Oxshott -
There were several people injured when a concrete mixer fell from a bridge in Surrey and landed on a train carrying passengers.
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Ridgewood -
An 18-year-old university student jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge after a secretly recorded video of him having sex with a man was broadcast over the Internet.
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A footbridge close to the Commonwealth Games stadium in Delhi has collapsed leaving 23 injured, five of them critically, reports say.
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Marlow -
Marlow, an historic market town in the UK, is famously twinned with Budapest and they share one thing in common - the bridge design. Thanks to a petition, the bridge is nearly back to it's former glory.
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Oldham -
When 19-year-old Emma Needham spotted a woman sitting on an 18-inch ledge, with her legs dangling over a busy road, she spent about an hour talking to her – convincing her not to jump.
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To make the best use of the massive stimulus package, China is to build the world's longest bridge to connect mainland China,Hong Kong and Macao to bring the economic ties closer.
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San Francisco's Bay Bridge closed Tuesday evening after a cable and two rods broke free and crashed onto the bridge. Transportation officials are preparing contingency plans to address a possible extended closure of the California landmark.
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BBC News is reporting that a 66 year old man in Guangzhou, China, pushed a man off a bridge ledge where he had been threatening to jump for the past five hours.
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The most beautiful spot in Amsterdam to take a photograph.
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Jilin's tallest bridge spans the river; you can see it flow toward the southeast
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Parrotts Ferry bridge across New Melones Lake
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Views northward of the Bosporus that connects Asia and Europe in Istanbul (from the Bosporus Bridge)
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Demolition of a bridge in Marble Falls, Texas
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A bridge from River Street to Bay Street in historic downtown Savannah, Georgia.
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Crossing the stone bridge above the moat that surrounds the Forbidden City
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A bridge near the Marmara Sea in Izmit, Kocaeli
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Southcore Financial Centre's new art exhibit bridges the building to Toronto's Union Station
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A bridge which can be a challenge if you are on horseback.
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Waccamaw River Memorial Bridge, Conway, SC, built in 1937.
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Halifax Public Gardens, NS, Oct 2010,
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India already has many railway bridges. However this new one is set to tower over all the previous ones.
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“The excitement, the hype-ness of (New York City radio)... the internet can't replace that," says Pemberton. "It’s not the same as, “Oooh, so people downloaded this mp3 today!“ Like, okay...”
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A modern-style Izmit bridge crosses over busy highways toward the Marmara Sea
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