Posted on 07/25/2010 1:31:02 PM PDT by Lorianne
It is one of the planet's newest awe-inspiring superstructures - the Hoover Dam Bridge. Now the giant construction project which is on schedule to be completed in September can be seen in all its glory in a series of stunning photographs.
Twelve years in planning and five years under construction, the development - known officially as the 'Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge' - is finally taking shape.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Yes, it was originally started as a DHS project so trucks could make the trip from Vegas to Kingman without having to make the Laughlin route. They stopped all traffic after 911 until they had DHS checkpoints constructed to “randomely” check cars wanting to make the trip not only across the dam but also just to visit it.
Currently all truck traffic must take the route to Laughlin from Boulder City. The new bridge will also take all of the regular traffic off the dam leaving it for only tourist and maintenance traffic.
Cheez...some of them are smokers.
How many people died while building the Empire State Building?
Though rumors of hundreds of people dying on the work site circulated during the time of its construction, official records state that only five workers were killed: one worker was struck by a truck; a second fell down an elevator shaft; a third was hit by a hoist; a fourth was in a blast area; and a fifth fell off a scaffold
And that after more than 7,000,000 hours of labor. Sort of makes you wonder about why we need OSHA.
It appears that when finished it will be the longest arch truss bridge in the world? Anyone know for sure?
"You're drivin' me to Phoenix !"
I got vertigo just looking at that.
FWIW, the drop from the bottom of the Hoover Dam to the Pacific Ocean, the total drop in the Colorado river from the base of the dam to the sea is only about 300 feet over a run of several hundred miles. In New England rivers often drop five feet per mile (Assebet, Blackstone, ...). By New England standards, the Colorado from Boulder to the Pacific is a pond.
Actually, the Hoover Dam was a much more impressive engineering feat than the Empire State Building. Something like 96 (not 112) people died in industrial accidents associated with the construction of the dam, though no one is actually buried or encased inside the dam.
Why did they all wear those hats back then? What was the pull?
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