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Bronx–Whitestone Bridge in New York City aerial photo taken on December 22, 2013 - © 2014 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Photography Archives - www.performanceimpressions.com
DSB - Nyborg - The ferries harbour as it was during the 50-60ies. There are two ferries fot the time being... No one is planning the large IC ferries yet and of course not the bridge and tunnel which are actually existing - Postcard - Collection : J.J.B.
The New York Transit Museum, located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station at Boerum Place, was opened 1976 by the New York City Transit Authority and taken over in the mid-1990s by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The museum includes subway, bus, railway, bridge, and tunnel memorabilia; and other exhibits including vintage signage and in-vehicle advertisements; and models and dioramas of subway, bus, and other equipment.
Smoothing concrete on the Henry Hudson Bridge toll plaza lane as it progressed during a two-week period from March 24 to April 7, when the new wider toll lanes were reopened to traffic. Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels / Charles Passarella and David Caso.
Just in time for Earth Day 2012, MTA Bridges and Tunnels crews finished replacing 142 old mercury vapor lights with new high-efficiency LED lights at the Throgs Neck Bridge. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / James Toborg.
The New York Transit Museum, located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station at Boerum Place, was opened 1976 by the New York City Transit Authority and taken over in the mid-1990s by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The museum includes subway, bus, railway, bridge, and tunnel memorabilia; and other exhibits including vintage signage and in-vehicle advertisements; and models and dioramas of subway, bus, and other equipment.
Bridle Path
1939
oil on canvas, 107 cm x 72 cm
Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967)
Anonymous Gift
76.174
This dynamic image of equestrians riding through Central Park at midday is quite distinct from the murky, quiet, and lonely scenes of American life for which Hopper is best known. Although he was aware of developments in abstract art, he remained committed to painting in a modern, figurative style. As a young man he traveled to Paris, where he developed an interest in impressionism; some aspects of that manner are visible here, including the work’s subject: horseback riding in an urban park. The odd perspective of the bridge and tunnel is classic Hopper, however. He has seized an oblique, angular view of the park and hidden the faces of the figures so that their emotions cannot be perceived.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) was opened in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art, the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art. For its first sixty years, the museum occupied upper floors of the War Memorial Veterans Building in the Civic Center. Under director Henry T. Hopkins, the museum added "Modern" to its title in 1975, and established an international reputation. In 1995 the museum moved to its current location, a large cubistic building designed by Mario Botta Architetto of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum at 151 Third Street.
Bridges and Tunnels Capt. Richard Hildebrand (center) and Sgt. Donald Johnston (right) accompany last participant through Hugh L. Carey Tunnel during the annual Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Run, commemorating the FDNY firefighter’s run through the tunnel to the World Trade Center on 9/11 on Sunday September 29, 2013. Photo: MTA photo/B&T Director of Central Operations Daniel DeCrescenzo
Start of run on Brooklyn side during the annual Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Run, commemorating the FDNY firefighter’s run through the tunnel to the World Trade Center on 9/11 on Sunday September 29, 2013. Photo: MTA photo/B&T Director of Central Operations Daniel DeCrescenzo
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (CBBT) is a 23-mile-long (37 km) fixed link crossing the mouth of the United States Chesapeake Bay and connecting the Delmarva Peninsula's Eastern Shore of the state of Virginia with Virginia Beach and the metropolitan area of Hampton Roads, Virginia.
The bridge–tunnel originally combined 12 miles (19 km) of trestle, two 1-mile-long (1.6 km) tunnels, four artificial islands, four high-level bridges, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) of causeway, and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of approach roads—crossing the Chesapeake Bay and preserving traffic on the Thimble Shoals and Chesapeake shipping channels. It replaced vehicle ferry services which operated from South Hampton Roads and from the Virginia Peninsula from the 1930s until completion of the bridge–tunnel in 1964. The system remains one of only ten bridge–tunnel systems in the world, three of which are located in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
The CBBT complex carries U.S. Route 13, the main north–south highway on Virginia's Eastern Shore, and, as part of the East Coast's longstanding Ocean Highway, provides the only direct link between the Eastern Shore and South Hampton Roads regions, as well as an alternate route to link the Northeast and points in between with Norfolk and the Carolinas. The bridge–tunnel saves motorists 95 miles (153 km) and 1½ hours on a trip between Virginia Beach/Norfolk and points north and east of the Delaware Valley without going through the traffic congestion in the Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area.
Initially, high-level bridges were contemplated to cross over the two main shipping channels on the selected route, Thimble Shoals Channel, which leads to Hampton Roads, and the Chesapeake Channel, which leads to points north in the Bay, notably the Port of Baltimore. However, the U.S. Navy objected, due to concerns that collapse of high level bridge(s) (due to either accidental or deliberate action) could cause a large portion of the Atlantic fleet based at the Norfolk Navy Base at Sewell's Point and other craft within the Hampton Roads harbor area to be blocked from access to the Atlantic Ocean.
To address these concerns, the engineers recommended a series of bridges and tunnels known as a bridge–tunnel, similar in design to the Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel, which had been completed in 1957, but a considerably longer and larger facility. The tunnel portions, anchored by four man-made islands of approximately 5 acres (2.0 ha) each, would be extended under the two main shipping channels.
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The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge that connects the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City at the Narrows, the reach connecting the relatively protected upper bay with the larger lower bay.
The bridge is named for Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first known European navigator to enter New York Harbor and the Hudson River, while crossing The Narrows. It has a center span of 4,260 feet and was the largest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its completion in 1964 (previously held by the Golden Gate Bridge), until it was surpassed by the Humber Bridge in the United Kingdom in 1981. It now has the eighth longest center span in the world, and is the largest suspension bridge in the United States. Its massive towers can be seen throughout a good part of the New York metropolitan area, including from spots in all five boroughs of New York City.
The bridge furnishes a critical link in the local and regional highway system. It is the starting point of the New York City Marathon. The bridge marks the gateway to New York Harbor; all cruise ships and most container ships arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey must pass underneath the bridge and thus must be built to accommodate the clearance under the bridge. This is most notable in the case of the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary 2 when it had to shorten her funnel to pass under the bridge, and still had barely 3m of clearance.
The bridge was the last great public works project in New York City overseen by Robert Moses, the New York State Parks Commissioner and head of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, who had long desired the bridge as a means of completing the expressway system which was itself largely the result of his efforts. The bridge was the last project designed by Chief Engineer Othmar Ammann, who had also designed most of the other major crossings of New York City, including the George Washington Bridge, the Bayonne Bridge, the Bronx Whitestone Bridge, the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, and the Throgs Neck Bridge. The plans to build the bridge caused considerable controversy in the neighborhood of Bay Ridge, because many families had settled in homes in the area where the bridge now stands and were forced to relocate.
Construction on the bridge began August 13, 1959, and the upper deck was opened on November 21, 1964 at a cost of $320 million. New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony, which was attended by over 5,000 people. The lower deck opened on June 28, 1969.
Fort Lafayette was an island coastal fortification in New York Harbor, built next to Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is now Bay Ridge. It was destroyed as part of the bridge's construction in 1960; the Brooklyn-side bridge pillars now occupy the fort's former foundation
According to the United States Department of Transportation:
*Each of the two towers contains 1,000,000 bolts and 3,000,000 rivets.
*The diameter of each of the four suspension cables is 36 inches. Each cable is composed of 26,108 wires amounting to a total of 143,000 miles in length
*Because of the height of the towers (693 ft) and their distance apart (4260 ft), the curvature of the Earth's surface had to be taken into account when designing the bridge—the towers are 15⁄8 inches farther apart at their tops than at their bases.
*Because of thermal expansion/contraction of the steel cables, the bridge roadway is 12 feet lower in summer than its winter elevation.
*The bridge is affected by weather more than any other bridge in the city because of its size and isolated location close to the open ocean. It is occasionally closed (either partially or entirely) during strong wind and snow storms.
MTA Bridges & Tunnels Vice President and Chief of Operations Richard Hildebrand presents commendations to Sgt. Orlando Caholo and BTO Heather Minutello at the Queens Midtown Tunnel on Tue., June 22, 2021.
The officers spotted runaway dog Indie running through the tunnel, and contacted her owner, Heather Angus, leading to their reunion.
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA
The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation held a scaled down version of its annual memorial run & walk on Sun., September 27, 2020. Led by Frank Siller, and accompanied by MTA Bridges & Tunnels President Daniel DeCrescenzo and Acting Vice President and Chief of Operations Richard Hildebrand, the walk commemorates FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller’s run through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (now the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel) on September 11, 2001, before his death at the World Trade Center.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
New York City- Sergeant Gomez and Sergeant Mossini, New York Army National Guard, Alpha Company Joint Task Force Empire Shied (JTF-ES), patrol LaGuardia Airport Delta Airline terminal as part of their duties assigned to Alpha Company JTF-ES. .
JTF -ES is the state’s standing military organization that plans and prepares for defense support to civil authority missions throughout the New York City area and is jointly staffed with Army and Air National Guard personnel along with members of the New York Naval Militia and New York Guard.
The service members on JTF-ES augment the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Police at Penn Station, Grand Central Station in New York City and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department (PAPD) at John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia Airports, the New State Police and the Tunnel Bridge and Toll Authority (TBTA) at the various bridges and tunnels in the New York City area. Division of Military and Naval Affairs Photos by New York Guard Captain Mark Getman.
On April 14, 2014 Bronx-Whitestone Bridge employees installed banners on the toll canopy and along roadway celebrating the 75th anniversary of the bridge’s opening on April 29, 1939. Photo:Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Island demolition work on the Henry Hudson Bridge toll plaza lane as it progressed during a two-week period from March 24 to April 7, when the new wider toll lanes were reopened to traffic. Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels / Charles Passarella and David Caso.
At the 2013 Atlantic Antic in Brooklyn, MTA Bridges and Tunnels showcased a number of the trucks and heavy machinery it uses to maintain the MTA's vehicular bridges and tunnels.
Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels.
On April 14, 2014 Bronx-Whitestone Bridge employees installed banners on the toll canopy and along roadway celebrating the 75th anniversary of the bridge’s opening on April 29, 1939. Photo:Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
With a main span 60 feet (18 metres) longer than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was the world's longest suspension span for 17 years until surpassed by England's Humber River Bridge in 1981. Now the sixth longest, it is still the longest in North America.
The bridge is a vital link in the southern bypass route around New York City, a part of a metropolitan highway loop first proposed by the Regional Plan Association in 1929 and recommended by the Triborough and Port authorities in their 1955 Joint Study of Arterial Facilities. The cables are so long that in summer heat expansion can cause the double-deck roadway to be 12 feet (3.7 metres) lower than in the winter. The bridge is named after Giovanni da Verrazano, who, in 1524, was the first European to explore New York Harbor.
Source: "Guide to Civil Engineering Projects in and Around New York City", American Society of Civil Engineers - Metropolitan Section, second edition, 2009.
This is the Pont du Gard, a famous Roman Aqueduct on the Gardon River in France.
This monumental structure spanning the Gardon River valley is 275 metres long, 49 metres high, 6 metres wide at the base, 3 metres wide at the top and has a total of fifty three arches. It is only one part of a fifty kilometre aqueduct which supplied Roman Nimes with fresh water. It is estimated to have carried twenty thousand cubic metres per day.
It was built using six-ton stone blocks, coloured a delicate shade of pink, laid dry, and is a technological and aesthetic masterpiece.
Through poor maintenance, the aqueduct gradually became unusable in the 9th Century.
But the many times restored Pont du Gard, still remains its haughty air even after nearly two thousand years.
From a tourist book on La Provence (English version)
Begun around 19 BC, this bridge is part of an aqueduct which transported water from a spring near Uzes to Roman Nimes. An underground channel, bridges and tunnels were engineered to carry the 20 million litre (4.4 million gallon) daily water supply 50 km (31 miles).
The three-tiered structure of the Pont du Gard spans the Gardon valley and was the tallest aqueduct in the Roman empire.
Its huge limestone blocks, some as heavy as 6 tonnes, were erected without mortar. The water channel covered by stone slabs, was in the top tier of the three. Skillfully designed cutwaters ensured that the bridge has resisted many violent floods.
It is not known for certain how long the aqueduct continued in use but it may still have been functioning as late as the 9th century AD.
The adjacent road bridge was erected in the 1700s.
Taken from DK Eyewitness Travel: Provence & The Cote D'Azur
Views of the River Gard, as I got to the end of the bridge.
The River Gard looking towards the beaches on the river (Rive Droite).
Panoramic of the River Gardon valley taken from below the aqueduct.
Original output version.
The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation held a scaled down version of its annual memorial run & walk on Sun., September 27, 2020. Led by Frank Siller, and accompanied by MTA Bridges & Tunnels President Daniel DeCrescenzo and Acting Vice President and Chief of Operations Richard Hildebrand, the walk commemorates FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller’s run through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (now the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel) on September 11, 2001, before his death at the World Trade Center.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
Seven new peregrine falcon chicks are living in their parents’ nesting boxes high atop three MTA bridges. The new chicks include four newly hatched peregrines at Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial, two at Throgs Neck and one at the Verrazano-Narrows. They hatched in early May and were recently banded by wildlife specialist Chris Nadareski, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s Wildlife Studies division. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
The 50th running of the TCS New York City Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021. MTA Bridges and Tunnels personnel at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
Date: 22.03.2011
Location: Amsterdam Noord, Mosveld
Wall: 650 m2 of the complete bridge and tunnel walls
All artists of the Urban Art Exchange SH(OUT)!!! painted together the complete bridge and tunnel walls at the Mosplein in Amsterdam Noord. A common color scheme for the styels and the background was chosen by the organisation crew. During a preparation meeting the wall space was divided amon the artists in order to get a good composition of stylewriters and characters.
URBAN ART MURALISM - ARTIST EXCHANGE in AMSTERDAM
A group of 36 Urban Artists coming from six European countries – Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy, France and Austria – took part in the European Art Exchange Project “SH(OUT)!!!” from 18.03.11 to 27.03.11 in Amsterdam.
The main activities included several mural paintings in the city of Amsterdam, an exhibition in the Dokhuis Gallery as well as a common art workshop with local young people.
Nowadays Urban Art has worldwide acceptance as a young art form. Urban Artists form and transform public spaces and present their work, free of charge, throughout the cities. The event gives respect and pays tribute to art from the streets and makes this art form more accessible to a broader audience through various live painting activities in the city, two innovative group exhibitions and workshops.
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Seven new peregrine falcon chicks are living in their parents’ nesting boxes high atop three MTA bridges. The new chicks include four newly hatched peregrines at Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial, two at Throgs Neck and one at the Verrazano-Narrows. They hatched in early May and were recently banded by wildlife specialist Chris Nadareski, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s Wildlife Studies division. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Seven new peregrine falcon chicks are living in their parents’ nesting boxes high atop three MTA bridges. The new chicks include four newly hatched peregrines at Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial, two at Throgs Neck and one at the Verrazano-Narrows. They hatched in early May and were recently banded by wildlife specialist Chris Nadareski, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s Wildlife Studies division. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Carlton Cyrus
New York Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to Task Force Wingfoot, a team built around the 1st Battalion, 101st Cavalry, screen vehicles at points leading to New York City's bridges and tunnels as part of a security augmentation mission which lasted from November 2001 to January 2002 after the initial response to the 9/11 attacks wrapped up.
The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation held a scaled down version of its annual memorial run & walk on Sun., September 27, 2020. Led by Frank Siller, and accompanied by MTA Bridges & Tunnels President Daniel DeCrescenzo and Acting Vice President and Chief of Operations Richard Hildebrand, the walk commemorates FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller’s run through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (now the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel) on September 11, 2001, before his death at the World Trade Center.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
Two ELSAG model MPH-900 cameras installed on Mott St.
These license plate readers are high speed ocr scanners up to 20 plates a second. The system crosschecks database(s) of stolen cars, unregistered cars, cars linked to people on warrants, and other offenses. They have a myriad of counterterrorism, anti gang, anti immigration, and tax collecting purposes as well. www.elsag.com.
NYPD policy on what they do with the data, and how long they store it is not clear. For other agencies new to the game, NY State has produced a set of suggested (fill in the blank) guidelines on the use of LPR technology.
www.nychiefs.org/ModelPolicies/License_Plate_Reader_Guide...
There are roughly 238 ALPR cameras in New York City. About 130 of them are mobile units attached to police cars, the rest are founded in fixed locations such as at bridges and tunnels. www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/nyregion/12plates.html?hp
it is also part of the nypd ring of steel project
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Vehicles impounded by TBTA at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge during Persistent Toll Violator interdiction operations on Tuesday, Mar 21, 2023.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation held a scaled down version of its annual memorial run & walk on Sun., September 27, 2020. Led by Frank Siller, and accompanied by MTA Bridges & Tunnels President Daniel DeCrescenzo and Acting Vice President and Chief of Operations Richard Hildebrand, the walk commemorates FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller’s run through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (now the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel) on September 11, 2001, before his death at the World Trade Center.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
IRT 'Low Voltage' Trailer 4902 (1917)
Manufacturer: Pullman Company, Pullman, Illinois (1917)
Service: 1917-1964
Routes: All IRT Lines
Like other subway cars, low voltage (or Lo-V) cars draw 600 voltes of direct electric current from the third rail for power, but they use a much lower current--32 volts coming from btteries--to operate the motor controller and door controls. By sending a lower voltage of electricity into the interior of the cars, the motorman was protected from electrocution. In addition, low voltage cars allowed for automatic car acceleration.
When the IRT subway first opened, it ran "composite" cars--wooden bodies sheathed in copper. These were eventually replaced by all-steel cars. The low voltage cars resembled the IRT standard all-steel car design developed in 2901 by George Gibbs.
The design, modified in 2904, was altered again in 1910 to include a center door. Car number 4902 was part of the second series of low-voltage motor and trailer cars delivered to the IRT in 1917. These cars had a few cosmetic alterations from the first series delivered in 1916. For example, car numbers once painted on the window glass now appeared on steel plates, and brass window sashes replaced wooden ones.
The New York Transit Museum, located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station at Boerum Place, was opened 1976 by the New York City Transit Authority and taken over in the mid-1990s by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The museum includes subway, bus, railway, bridge, and tunnel memorabilia; and other exhibits including vintage signage and in-vehicle advertisements; and models and dioramas of subway, bus, and other equipment.
IRT R-15 Car Number 6239 (1950)
Manufacturer: American Car and Foundry Company (Berwick, Pennsylvania), 1950
Service: 1950-1985
Routes: Flushing line (7), 1950-1964; IRT lines (Numbers 1/9, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), 1964-1985
Innovations in the subway system after World War II, including R-15 cars, continued even as increasing numbers of city residents moved to the suburbs and used automobiles for commuting. The R-15 order was small but significant. Although only 100 cars were produced, they combined the best features of other post-war orders with new and experimental features. The cars contained the propulsion and braking system of R-10 cars with design features of the R-11. The cars arrived painted a distinctive maroon with beige stripes. Porthole window design was adapted from earlier R-11cars.
This R-15 car, number 6239, is notable as the first car in the New York City subway system to be air-conditioned. The air-conditioning was installed 5 years after the car was put into service, but it failed after only 2 weeks of operation in the dusty subway environment. The cars were often damp, and water dripped on passengers. The costly and ineffectual air-conditioning was removed, but the New York City Transit Authority continued to work on the technology.
The New York Transit Museum, located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station at Boerum Place, was opened 1976 by the New York City Transit Authority and taken over in the mid-1990s by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The museum includes subway, bus, railway, bridge, and tunnel memorabilia; and other exhibits including vintage signage and in-vehicle advertisements; and models and dioramas of subway, bus, and other equipment.
On April 14, 2014 Bronx-Whitestone Bridge employees installed banners on the toll canopy and along roadway celebrating the 75th anniversary of the bridge’s opening on April 29, 1939. Photo:Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (CBBT) is a 23-mile-long (37 km) fixed link crossing the mouth of the United States Chesapeake Bay and connecting the Delmarva Peninsula's Eastern Shore of the state of Virginia with Virginia Beach and the metropolitan area of Hampton Roads, Virginia.
The bridge–tunnel originally combined 12 miles (19 km) of trestle, two 1-mile-long (1.6 km) tunnels, four artificial islands, four high-level bridges, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) of causeway, and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of approach roads—crossing the Chesapeake Bay and preserving traffic on the Thimble Shoals and Chesapeake shipping channels. It replaced vehicle ferry services which operated from South Hampton Roads and from the Virginia Peninsula from the 1930s until completion of the bridge–tunnel in 1964. The system remains one of only ten bridge–tunnel systems in the world, three of which are located in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
The CBBT complex carries U.S. Route 13, the main north–south highway on Virginia's Eastern Shore, and, as part of the East Coast's longstanding Ocean Highway, provides the only direct link between the Eastern Shore and South Hampton Roads regions, as well as an alternate route to link the Northeast and points in between with Norfolk and the Carolinas. The bridge–tunnel saves motorists 95 miles (153 km) and 1½ hours on a trip between Virginia Beach/Norfolk and points north and east of the Delaware Valley without going through the traffic congestion in the Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area.
Initially, high-level bridges were contemplated to cross over the two main shipping channels on the selected route, Thimble Shoals Channel, which leads to Hampton Roads, and the Chesapeake Channel, which leads to points north in the Bay, notably the Port of Baltimore. However, the U.S. Navy objected, due to concerns that collapse of high level bridge(s) (due to either accidental or deliberate action) could cause a large portion of the Atlantic fleet based at the Norfolk Navy Base at Sewell's Point and other craft within the Hampton Roads harbor area to be blocked from access to the Atlantic Ocean.
To address these concerns, the engineers recommended a series of bridges and tunnels known as a bridge–tunnel, similar in design to the Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel, which had been completed in 1957, but a considerably longer and larger facility. The tunnel portions, anchored by four man-made islands of approximately 5 acres (2.0 ha) each, would be extended under the two main shipping channels.
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Vehicles impounded by TBTA at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge during Persistent Toll Violator interdiction operations on Tuesday, Mar 21, 2023.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
On April 14, 2014 Bronx-Whitestone Bridge employees installed banners on the toll canopy and along roadway celebrating the 75th anniversary of the bridge’s opening on April 29, 1939. Photo:Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
On 14th Oct 2018, 10000 Hong Kong protesters hold a rally from Causeway Bay to the Central Office, to protest the government 's plan to spend probably 1 trillion Hong Kong dollars to build artificial islands and accompanying bridges and tunnels in the East of Lantau Island.
The former "East Lantau Metropolis project" proposed to reclaim 1000 hectares , has been replaced this week by an even more ambitious project of "Lantau Tomorrow Vision " of reclaiming 1700 hectares to house 1.1million people by the Chief Executive Carrie Lam, preempting the awaited public consultation report by the Task Force on Land Supply.
The protestors worried the project has not considered the risks under extreme weather, will irreversibly damage the environment, burn up the whole fiscal reserve, and deprive the public of the funding for other more important fields like medical , education, and retirement scheme.
Moreover the project , requiring 2 to 3 decades to complete , cannot cater for the immediate housing needs of the general public, as compared to other source of land supply such as the Fanling Golf Course , brownfield sites and buy back farmland from private estate developers for public housing.
大约一萬名市民於十月十四日參與由銅鑼灣至政總的遊行 ,抗議政府計劃用一萬億元填海及興建東大嶼人工島方案。
示威者認為政府的明日大嶼計劃填海1700公頃及其他的橋樑或隧道, 將會對環境造成不可挽回的影響, 亦未有考慮到人工島能否應付極端的天氣, 財政上會用盡香港的儲備, 亦令到沒有足夠財政資源用於醫療、教育及全民退休保障等。
示威者亦不滿政府亦未有等待土地供應小組的咨詢結果便公佈填海作為主要選項。但填海需時20至30年才提供到1.1百萬人的住宅, 相反其他土地供應選項如收回粉嶺哥爾夫球場、粽地、及用官地收回條例收回地產發展商的農地作公營房屋卻能夠比較快提供到房屋。
Vehicles impounded by TBTA at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge during Persistent Toll Violator interdiction operations on Tuesday, Mar 21, 2023.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Crews demolishing steel curb on the Henry Hudson Bridge toll plaza lane as it progressed during a two-week period from March 24 to April 7, when the new wider toll lanes were reopened to traffic. Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels / Charles Passarella and David Caso.
On April 14, 2014 Bronx-Whitestone Bridge employees installed banners on the toll canopy and along roadway celebrating the 75th anniversary of the bridge’s opening on April 29, 1939. Photo:Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Island demo completed work on the Henry Hudson Bridge toll plaza lane as it progressed during a two-week period from March 24 to April 7, when the new wider toll lanes were reopened to traffic. Photo: MTA Bridges and Tunnels / Charles Passarella and David Caso.
New lights installed on pedestals pictured here. Security and marine navigation lights at MTA Bridges and Tunnels’ Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, destroyed by Superstorm Sandy, are functioning once again under a $686,000 project that was completed ahead of schedule and within budget.
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Seven new peregrine falcon chicks are living in their parents’ nesting boxes high atop three MTA bridges. The new chicks include four newly hatched peregrines at Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial, two at Throgs Neck and one at the Verrazano-Narrows. They hatched in early May and were recently banded by wildlife specialist Chris Nadareski, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s Wildlife Studies division. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Bridle Path
1939
oil on canvas, 107 cm x 72 cm
Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967)
Anonymous Gift
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This dynamic image of equestrians riding through Central Park at midday is quite distinct from the murky, quiet, and lonely scenes of American life for which Hopper is best known. Although he was aware of developments in abstract art, he remained committed to painting in a modern, figurative style. As a young man he traveled to Paris, where he developed an interest in impressionism; some aspects of that manner are visible here, including the work’s subject: horseback riding in an urban park. The odd perspective of the bridge and tunnel is classic Hopper, however. He has seized an oblique, angular view of the park and hidden the faces of the figures so that their emotions cannot be perceived.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) was opened in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art, the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art. For its first sixty years, the museum occupied upper floors of the War Memorial Veterans Building in the Civic Center. Under director Henry T. Hopkins, the museum added "Modern" to its title in 1975, and established an international reputation. In 1995 the museum moved to its current location, a large cubistic building designed by Mario Botta Architetto of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum at 151 Third Street.
The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation held a scaled down version of its annual memorial run & walk on Sun., September 27, 2020. Led by Frank Siller, and accompanied by MTA Bridges & Tunnels President Daniel DeCrescenzo and Acting Vice President and Chief of Operations Richard Hildebrand, the walk commemorates FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller’s run through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (now the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel) on September 11, 2001, before his death at the World Trade Center.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)
This is the Pont du Gard, a famous Roman Aqueduct on the Gardon River in France.
This monumental structure spanning the Gardon River valley is 275 metres long, 49 metres high, 6 metres wide at the base, 3 metres wide at the top and has a total of fifty three arches. It is only one part of a fifty kilometre aqueduct which supplied Roman Nimes with fresh water. It is estimated to have carried twenty thousand cubic metres per day.
It was built using six-ton stone blocks, coloured a delicate shade of pink, laid dry, and is a technological and aesthetic masterpiece.
Through poor maintenance, the aqueduct gradually became unusable in the 9th Century.
But the many times restored Pont du Gard, still remains its haughty air even after nearly two thousand years.
From a tourist book on La Provence (English version)
Begun around 19 BC, this bridge is part of an aqueduct which transported water from a spring near Uzes to Roman Nimes. An underground channel, bridges and tunnels were engineered to carry the 20 million litre (4.4 million gallon) daily water supply 50 km (31 miles).
The three-tiered structure of the Pont du Gard spans the Gardon valley and was the tallest aqueduct in the Roman empire.
Its huge limestone blocks, some as heavy as 6 tonnes, were erected without mortar. The water channel covered by stone slabs, was in the top tier of the three. Skillfully designed cutwaters ensured that the bridge has resisted many violent floods.
It is not known for certain how long the aqueduct continued in use but it may still have been functioning as late as the 9th century AD.
The adjacent road bridge was erected in the 1700s.
Taken from DK Eyewitness Travel: Provence & The Cote D'Azur
Details of the stonework.
My DK book mentioned that graffiti was left in the 18th century by masons, so I took a photo of an example I found.