The Topline The sixth crossing over Dubai Creek set to be the most expensive and longest arch bridge in the world.
An image of the proposed arch bridge in Dubai.
Engineer Maitha Bin Adai, CEO of Traffic and Roads Agency at the press conference.
$100 a barrel of oil buys plenty of toys (not to mention bombs, madrassahs, and board seats in US companies)
That’s not an arch bridge. It’s a suspension bridge.
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If the current 'Disneylandia' (to use a non-word) over Dubai ends, the city will end up being one of the world's prettiest failures.
Looks like Crusty-The-Pantsuit...only worn a bit high-waisted.
The upper bridge is what an arch bridge looks like. Its the one over the New River in WVA. Its the longest one in the Western Hemisphere.
I know the bridge from Saudi to Bahrain is huge .... beautiful too.
That is a LOT of steel.
Wow. Where’s the environmental impact statements for the, carbon footprint, snail darter, spotted owls and all the other must haves before projects like this can be started?
I suppose you have to spend billions of oil dollars on something but why not spend it on making your country marginally habitable? (greening the desert like Israel) as opposed to builidng bridges and shopping malls with skiing hills in them.
Nothing wrong with that or the bridge either.
Woo! Time to pay Dubai another visit soon.
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Maitha Bin Adai is a skilled engineer. Also, a babe, at least based on the photo shown here. Kudos to the Emirate for being a truly forward-looking Arab state.
Beautiful. Thanks for posting this, Squidpup.
I believe they’re building some of the world’s tallest skyscrapers in Dubai as well.
The arch of the New River Gorge Bridge is below the bridge, and and spans the gorge where it is narrower farther down. The arch only spans 518 meters, so the builders of the bridge in China and now Dubai claim that their arch is longer. The proposed bridge in Dubai spans a far shorter distance than the bridge in West Virginia, and the part of the Chinese bridge that is supported by the main arch is also far shorter than the New River Gorge Bridge.
Lookie here, trains, public transportation! An outrage against freedom!
$400 billion a year from the U.S. to these folks buys a lot of cool things.