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Great bridge from David. (thanks!)

A lightweight aluminium footbridge 53 metres long is placed by helicopter (spectacular scenery):

Note in the last photo entitled “bridge in place”, just after placing and before installing the deck, the bottom chord consists only of 4 cables to keep the weight down. The gorge crossed by the footbridge is “up to 600 metres deep” although the waterfall near the bridge has a free fall of “only” 140 metres. A bungee jumping point is provided.

More pictures here.

Infrastructure

I received an email from Infrastructure USA. I don’t know much about them but I believe they are an advocacy group for infrastructure. Can anybody tell me more about them?

Here is a bridge article on their site.

Highestbridge.com

I received an email from Eric, who is planning a trip to China. Some info and great pictures here and here.

I posted an online Photo Album of the 3 week trip that you can look at below.  I am now planning another China bridge trip to visit nearly all the crossings of the Yangtze River plus several more in the Shanghai region.  Like the 2011 high bridge adventure, the 2012 trip would be 3 weeks through much of western China.

This is arguably the most ambitious bridge trip ever undertaken with regard to visiting long span bridges.  We will attempt to visit some 80 spans in 22 days but the good part is there will be at least 1,500 kilometers less driving which will allow us to spend more time visiting more bridges each day and less time trying to get from one bridge to the next one as we had to do on the 2011 trip.  Our only real enemy is the weather.

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