Howrah Bridge
The Howrah Bridge (officially: Rabindra Setu - named after
Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian philosopher, poet, painter, composer, and musician) is the most important road bridge connecting the two Indian cities of Kolkata and Howrah across the Hugli (Hooghly) River. Built at the end of the British colonial period in India and opened in 1943, the bridge is one of the last large cantilever bridges outside North America to be built using steel truss construction.
Three years after it opened, a traffic census found that the bridge was crossed daily by 121,000 pedestrians, 27,400 vehicles of all kinds, and approximately 3,000 cows. This made it one of the busiest bridges in the world.
As I could see for myself, the bridge is permanently inhabited by many people who have set up camp on both sides.
Kolkata
India 1999
Canon EOS 1, Kodak CN 400
SE5 Lithprint onto Lumiere Elisee B11/2
Howrah Bridge
The Howrah Bridge (officially: Rabindra Setu - named after
Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian philosopher, poet, painter, composer, and musician) is the most important road bridge connecting the two Indian cities of Kolkata and Howrah across the Hugli (Hooghly) River. Built at the end of the British colonial period in India and opened in 1943, the bridge is one of the last large cantilever bridges outside North America to be built using steel truss construction.
Three years after it opened, a traffic census found that the bridge was crossed daily by 121,000 pedestrians, 27,400 vehicles of all kinds, and approximately 3,000 cows. This made it one of the busiest bridges in the world.
As I could see for myself, the bridge is permanently inhabited by many people who have set up camp on both sides.
Kolkata
India 1999
Canon EOS 1, Kodak CN 400
SE5 Lithprint onto Lumiere Elisee B11/2