China’s Aizhai Extra Large Suspension Bridge has opened today allowing motorists to cross over a canyon – at 1,102ft. Aizhai Extra Large Suspension Bridge is now the world’s highest and longest tunnel-to-tunnel bridge. Work started on the feat of engineering in October 2007 and the bulk of the work finished at the end of last year. The record-breaking bridge is designed to ease traffi…
Mar 31 2012 | Posted in
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Workers put the finishing touches to the Aizhai Long-span Suspension Bridge in Jishou, Hunan, China, this week, just in time for its opening. At 1,102 ft up and 3,858 ft across the ambitious Aizhai suspension bridge has become the highest and longest in the world. Work started on the engineering feat in October 2007 and the bulk of the work finished at the end of last year. It is designed to ease…
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…traveling northbound on the highway after leaving his stepson’s house in Murray, Kentucky. They were driving in the rain along the darkened bridge around 8pm when they suddenly noticed a missing 20-foot piece of the bridge, which at that section stands at least 20 feet above the water. “All of a sudden I see the road’s gone and I hit the brakes,” Robert Parker said. “It got close.” Rob…
feet tall and connects between the northwestern states of Sinaloa and Durango in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains After four years of construction, the Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge is priced at 2.18 billion pesos or 158.98522 million U.S. dollars. The bridge is so named as the country celebrates it’s bicentennial independence from Spain which was in 1810. The Durango-Mazatlan highway…
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…r – their summonses, for violations like disorderly conduct and blocking vehicular traffic. The first words many spoke made the group laugh: all variations on “I need a cigarette.” David Gutkin, 24, a Ph.D. student in musicology at Columbia University, was among the first released. He said that after being corralled and arrested on the bridge, he was put into plastic handcuffs and moved to w…
…k system which provides motorists with a tag fitted to the windscreen which is read electronically. They can also set up licence plate accounts or receive bills in the post. Nine full-time workers and 29 part-time staff are losing their jobs on the bridge, reports say. Some are being placed in other district positions or are retiring. Jacquie Dean lamented the change, saying: “Some customers…
Mar 27 2013 | Posted in
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…veien (“The Atlantic Road”), the road connection from the mainland Romsdal peninsula to the island of Averøya in Møre og Romsdal county. Storseisundet Bridge is a cantilever bridge that is 260 metres (850 ft) long and with a maximum clearance to the sea of 23 metres (75 ft). It was opened on 7 July 1989, and it was a toll road until June 1999….
…n’s construction committee, was quoted by Xinhua as saying that the ramp “tilted to one side and crashed onto the ground”. This is the sixth major bridge collapse in China since July 2011, the agency said. The lorries were carrying feed and stones, officials from the Harbin municipal government was quoted by People’s Daily Online newspaper as saying at a press conference. T…
Five former New Orleans police officers, who shot dead two unarmed civilians and wounded another four on a bridge in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, have been jailed. The prison terms range from six to 65 years for the shootings on the Danziger Bridge in September 2005. Four of the officers were found guilty of firearms offences and the fifth was jailed for helping the cover-up. The officers plant…
ty, and her mother, wearing a red top, crying as firefighters help pull her from the wreck. The accident, which is currently under investigation, occurred along U.S. Route 101 in rural Buellton, about 25 miles north of Santa Barbara. Because of the accident, the highway was closed in both directions. The San Juan Capistrano family was taken to nearby Cottage Hospital with moderate injuries, 920kve…
…Sunday had to be halted. “The bridge began to shake and there were fears that it would collapse,” said Valcir Machado, from local website npdiario.com, which broke the news. Traffic at the 1,500 m-long (0.9 mile) Chavantes bridge – which goes over a big dam on the border between the two states – has been suspended since the accident on Saturday afternoon. …
Sep 24 2012 | Posted in
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…sponse to the lunar insertion into the organization’s trademarked logo. The five interlocking rings represent the five parts of the world involved in the global games. The symbol was designed in 1912 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. …
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…is flying from London to Los Angeles to be with Tony’s family. Tony Scott’s tragic death comes just weeks after he was pictured looking pained as he left a Beverly Hills restaurant on July 23. Tony Scott had been in hospital earlier this summer and told friends it was for a hip operation. But they knew he had previously kicked cancer and some believe it had come back. “He has been suff…
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Five women died and four were injured when a stretch limo caught fire on the San Mateo bridge near San Francisco on Saturday night. Only the male driver escaped unhurt during the incident at 20 miles south-east of San Francisco, a police spokesman said. The victims, said to be in their 30s, were trapped as fire engulfed the back of the car, which had stopped. Amateur video footage showed the whit…
Director Tony Scott, famous for films including Top Gun, has died after jumping from a bridge in Los Angeles, the authorities have said. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office said Scott’s death was being investigated as a suicide. British-born Tony Scott, brother of Alien director Ridley Scott, shot to fame in the 1980s with a string of action films. Director Tony Scott, famous for…
…eekbook”. AMD’s focus on low power requirements reflects manufacturers’ desire to offer thinner laptops and slimmer all-in-one desktop models. Trinity can be set to run off as low as 17 watts, half the minimum amount possible using Llano. The move should also allow traditional-sized laptops to run off their batteries for longer. The firm says systems could last up to 12 hours, al…
Domnica Cemortan, the Moldovan blonde tour rep who was accused of causing the sinking of the Costa Concordia by romantically distracting Captain Francesco Schettino has given her first full newspaper interview “to set the record straight”. Domnica Cemortan, 25, had been dining and flirting with Captain Francesco Schettino, 52, before the disaster and was with him on the bridge when the ship struc…
The West Indian American Day Parade & Carnival celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2012. The party starts on the Thursday before Labor Day, August 30th, and doesn’t end till around 6 p.m. on the following Monday, September 3rd. 1. Monday September 3, 2012: WEST INDIAN CARIBBEAN AMERICAN LABOR DAY PARADE The parade starts at 11 a.m. and winds its way down Eastern Parkway, in a glorious di…
Pictures of cruise ship rep Domnica Cemortan with her “lover” captain coward Francesco Schettino just a month before the Costa Concordia disaster have emerged this week. Moldovan Domnica Cemortan , 24, and Francesco Schettino, 52, are pictured at a restaurant table groaning under the weight of fresh oysters and crabs during a stop over on a previous cruise – while his unsuspecting wife Fabi…
We all know how cats hate water, well here’s a cute video showing a cat crossing some water, very carefully. The video has been posted on YouTube and has gathered more than 1 million views in one week. …
Apr 21 2012 | Posted in
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…ass path clean, tourists are asked to put on shoe covers before passing. The oriental Skywalk is situated 4,700 ft above sea level on the side of the Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, China The 200 ft long bridge joins the west cliff at the Yunmeng Fairy Summit, the summit of Tianmen Mountain and Zhang Jiajie. The pathway, built earlier in the summer echoes the glass-bottomed walkway at the…
…” Dan Emmett also accuses Bill Clinton of putting his own life and those of his agents at risk by insisting on a “totally pointless photo op” on the North Korea-South Korea border. During the trip in 1993, Dan Emmett said the former President Bill Clinton went too far along the bridge separating the two nations, according to the Washington Examiner. “No-one seemed to know if President Clinton gra…
Bridge will be subject to “restricted access”. Road closures and travel issues on Margaret Thatcher’s funeral procession route Which bus routes will be affected? 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 43, 45 53, 59, 63, 68, 76, 87, 88, 91, 100 133, 139, 141, 148, 159 168, 171, 172, 176, 188 211, 242, 243, 341, 381, 388 453, 507, 521, C10. TfL also has announced that “it is…
Apr 16 2013 | Posted in
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across the nation. The spectacle, along a seven-mile stretch, will end six hours later when the last boat passes Tower Bridge. The Thames barrier is being lowered to slow the river’s flow. Some 20,000 people are expected to be in the boats of the flotilla, which will travel at 4 knots (4.6 miles) an hour. Despite cool, drizzly weather, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line th…
Three people have been shot dead after a gunman walked into a New Jersey Pathmark store and killed two staff members including an 18-year-old girl. The shooter was an employee of Pathmark and entered the Old Bridge store around 4:00 a.m. with a shotgun and opened fire on staff who were stacking shelves before the scheduled 6:00 a.m. opening. When police arrived at the store which is 25-miles from…
