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(WSDOT, 4-29-10) Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire announces the preferred alternative for the State Route 520 bridge project. She spoke at the Waterfront Activity Center at the University of Washington.
An aerial view of the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge that connects traffic I-90 traffic (across Lake Washington) from Mercer Island (upper portion of photo) to Seattle (lower portion of photo).
a book that tells the story of the chain link ferries that once crossed the Itchen river from Woolston to Southampton.
(WSDOT, 4-29-10) Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire announces the preferred alternative for the State Route 520 bridge project. She spoke at the Waterfront Activity Center at the University of Washington.
Woolston Ferry,
Southampton, England.
On the last day of operation, 11 June 1977.
(Replaced by the Itchen Toll Bridge.)
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Woolston Ferry,
Southampton, England.
On the last day of operation, 11 June 1977.
(Replaced by the Itchen Toll Bridge.)
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(WSDOT, 4-29-10) A banner is unveiled as Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire announces the preferred alternative for the State Route 520 bridge project. She spoke at the Waterfront Activity Center at the University of Washington.
It's probably not the smartest idea in the world to try to take photos while crossing 520 in stop and go traffic. But the waves yesterday were some of the biggest I've ever seen crossing the bridge. I was actually surprised the bridge was still open.
On my way back, the traffic was no longer stop and go, although it's also probably not a good idea to try to take photos at 60mph while on 520, and I wanted to capture the line of demarcation the bridge creates. It always amazes me.
April 10, 2009: From left, Dick Stoddard, Mike Hanson, Andy Walter and Rick Rodda. WSDOT project engineers and bridge inspectors went to Terminal 30 in Seattle to inspect an expansion joint that will be installed on the I-90 floating bridge in the westbound lanes in July 2009.
Port Moody, BC Canada
Sasamat Lake is located within Belcarra Regional Park in Port Moody, British Columbia. It is one of the warmest lakes in Greater Vancouver. At the south end of the lake there is a floating bridge, used for fishing or swimming. At the north end of the lake is White Pine Beach.
(Wikipedia)
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Origin —Built in 1888 by Leonard Burlington Smith, and named after Queen Emma (1890–1898), this bridge connects the Punda and Otrobanda districts.
Points of interest —16 floating pontoon boats support the “Pontoon Bridge.” Also known as the “Swinging Old Lady,” it swings open using two powerful ship motors, allowing ships to access the port. From 1901 to 1934, people had to pay a toll to cross the bridge — with the exception of pedestrians going barefoot. When the bridge is open to let ships from the harbour pass, pedestrians are transported free of charge by the ponchi, a small ferry.
The bridge has recently been restored to its glory. All asphalt was taken off and replaced by original wooden boards, the pontoons were repaired or replaced, and at night the "swinging old lady" now swings in living color with her new lights.
Port Moody, BC Canada
Hikers that are looking for an easy, year-round accessible hike or an outdoor area perfect for family picnics and a short walk will find the trails around Sasamat Lake in Belcarra Park a great escape from the city.
Located near Port Moody, Sasamat Lake has several facilities including walking trails, a beach area, swimming in the lake, a concession stand, and much more.
www.vancouvertrails.com/trails/sasamat-lake/
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April 10, 2009: A close-up of the I-90 floating bridge expansion joint. Once the 65-ton expansion joint is installed, the rubber gaskets set in the solid steel (pictured) are meant to steer rainwater away from the work areas below the bridge deck. WSDOT project engineers and bridge inspectors went to Terminal 30 in Seattle to inspect an expansion joint that will be installed on the I-90 floating bridge in the westbound lanes in July 2009.
WSDOT's SR 520 Corridor Program Director Julie Meredith addresses the tour participants while Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond looks on.
From June 19-22, 2009 WSDOT crews closed the SR 520 floating bridge across Lake Washington for routine maintenance and inspection. During this time, Washington Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond joined the general public, state legislators, and WSDOT staff on a tour of the SR 520 bridge.
(WSDOT, 4-29-10) State Sen. Rodney Tom speaks to reporters at a press conference where Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire announced the preferred alternative for the State Route 520 bridge project. The event was at the Waterfront Activity Center at the University of Washington.
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(WSDOT, July 6, 2009) Washington State Department of Transportation Chief Inspector Mike Coleman, left, examines the depth of the concrete demolition on the I-90 floating bridge with General Construction's Justin Strong. WSDOT hired the contractor to remove and replace four massive steel expansion joints on the floating bridge. Crews replaced two joints in the I-90 express lanes in May 2009 and began work demolishing concrete on the I-90 westbound mainline lanes July 6.
Woolston Ferry,
Southampton, England.
On the last day of operation, 11 June 1977.
(Replaced by the Itchen Toll Bridge.)
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(WSDOT, 4-29-10) Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire announces the preferred alternative for the State Route 520 bridge project. She spoke at the Waterfront Activity Center at the University of Washington.
Hope you like this unique angle looking down on Mercer Island. Helicopters Northwest gives a good chopper tour!
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To see more of my Seafair 2014 photos, please see my Seafair collection. I deeply enjoyed the flying, the community and the rest of the festivities.
Got many more pics to upload and share from my 2014 Seafair Friday flight. Thanks to Helicopters Northwest & Groupon for the trip.
Timelapse taken with the Canon G9 on my drive into work, after which I turned around and drove right back home.
I came down sick on June 28th, the day I went up Denny Creek with Tom. Its been daily stomach flu, some days feeling a bit better than others, but much weakness, much diarrhea and vomiting. Right after I pulled into the parking lot I lost my breakfast so I got back in my car and drove home. Sigh... I feel like I am never gonna get better.
Music : Getting Close by Ari Hest, who has a fantastic program right now where he is releasing 52 songs in a year, once a week
The Randolph Marching Band crossing the historic Brookfield Floating Bridge during the opening celebration.
Introduction
NEXT FLOAT is founded in 2000 to provide its special product to water-related business. During the past year, NEXT FLOAT has earned its fame and recognition from all over the world. We have been certified from many international exhibitions from U.A.E., Japan, India, and more.
With our NEXT FLOAT, it can be applied to various businesses or citizen site.
To find out how NEXT FLOAT, visit our website on www.nextfloat.net
What is NEXT FLOAT?
- Made with HDPE: 0% of recycling material is added.
- NEXT FLOAT’s Strength?
Connection Hook’s strength: 2tons of tensile weight
UV protection applied
Ease Assembly
Unlimited application area.
What is DECK on FLOAT?
- Advanced product from NEXT FLOAT with NUT-HOLE on upper surface.
- Advantages?
Eliminate the Excavation or De-Watering construction cost
Transformed to well-made floating bridge or stage.
Any deck meterials (Wood, Rubber, Plastic) can be attached
Ease Assembly
Application Field
Floating Bridge, Boat Dock, Floating Stage, Solar-power Plant, Platform, Light House, Fishery, Barge.
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Cyclists on the I-90 floating bridge under cloudy late-fall skies.
People who consider bicycle transportation impractical often scoff about how few cyclists you'll see using facilities outside of the few dry weeks of summer in Seattle. On this cold, breezy November morning, I count eight commuter cyclists on this one stretch of I-90 trail at the moment of this picture. (Nine, I suppose, if you count me.)
False-color infrared, Fuji IS-1 with 092 red filter.
On the 26th July I made my way to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight by coach trip. The day was in the heat wave we had during July 2018 and was very hot and humid. The trip over by Red Funnel Ferries was great, their ferries are very comfortable and much larger than the ones at Lymington, no criticism intended. Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural retreat. Prince Albert designed the house himself in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo. The builder was Thomas Cubitt, the London architect and builder whose company built the main facade of Buckingham Palace for the royal couple in 1847. An earlier smaller house on the site was demolished to make way for a new and far larger house, though the original entrance portico survives as the main gateway to the walled garden.
Queen Victoria died at Osborne House in January 1901. Following her death, the house became surplus to royal requirements and was given to the state, with a few rooms being retained as a private museum to Queen Victoria. From 1903 until 1921 it was used as a junior officer training college for the Royal Navy, known as the Royal Naval College, Osborne. In 1998 training programmes consolidated at the Britannia Royal Naval College which is now at Dartmouth, thus vacating Osborne House. The House now under the watchful eye of English Heritage is now open to the public for tours.
In 1903, the new stable block became a junior officer training college for the Royal Navy known as the Royal Naval College, Osborne. Initial training began at about the age of 13, and after two years studies were continued at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. The college closed in 1921, with the last students leaving on 9 April 1921. The traditions of Osborne helped inspire the operations of the Nautical College Pangbourne, after its founding in 1917. The NCP has now become Pangbourne College, but its students continue the tradition of wearing naval uniform, and maintaining certain naval traditions.
One of the buildings called Swiss Cottage in the grounds, here you will find inside, the story of the life of a Victorian royal child. Thanks to funding from donors including the Heritage Lottery Fund, vivid new displays, a garden trail and a new play area enable families to experience for themselves how the children of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert played and learnt in this unique and special place. Osborne House is famous for its selection of formal gardens containing rare and unusual plants, and there is also plenty of space to run around. Enjoy the formal walled gardens, visit the sheltered the Walled garden, admire the view the Solent from the Palm Terrace or visit the charming gardens which surround the miniature Swiss Chalet. As well as a stunning array of plants, rare red squirrels can be spotted amongst the trees. Gravel, tarmac and concrete provide access for all abilities. Benches and rest points are dotted throughout the grounds.
The organisers of the London Capital & Finance were holding an event day on the 25th and 26th July 2018. This meant many parts of the gardens could not be visited on these two days having been reserved for the visitors to these trials. Osborne Horse Trials hope to attract a new audience to the sport and to the Isle of Wight with this easy to follow two day eventing format. Horses will perform dressage and show jumping on the House lawns, before setting out across the estate parkland. Each phase will finish before the next commences, enabling spectators to see 70% of the action from one spot. Both days will feature two classes at open intermediate level with a Grand Prix class and three further categories tailored to either top level or less experienced horses. Pictures can be taken inside the house but not using flash. However Videos cannot be made while in the house itself.
Cowes Floating Bridge seems to have had lots of problems since it was introduced to East Cowes on the Isle of Wight. But hopefully now its working as it should.
Woolston Ferry,
Southampton, England.
On the last day of operation, 11 June 1977.
(Replaced by the Itchen Toll Bridge.)
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Some shots for my Kelowna set.
I used a timer, a few seconds I think, so the yellow on the bridge is possibly headlights. The red light on the building, near the middle and between the trees, is the hospitals' new helicopter landing pad.
I like the contrails...I didn't notice them when I took the photo.
Port Moody, BC Canada
Sasamat Lake is located within Belcarra Regional Park in Port Moody, British Columbia. It is one of the warmest lakes in Greater Vancouver. At the south end of the lake there is a floating bridge, used for fishing or swimming. At the north end of the lake is White Pine Beach.
(Wikipedia)
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Thank-you for your visit!
I really appreciate it!
Sonja :)
This is the Interstate 90 Foating Bridge across Lake Washington. Originally built in 1940, it is the second longest floating bridge on Earth at 6,620 ft (2,020 m), whereas the longest is the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge just a few miles to the north on the same lake, built 23 years later.
A large storm on November 22, 23, and 24, 1990 (the Thanksgiving holiday weekend), filled some of the pontoons with rain and lake water. On November 24, workers noticed that the bridge was about to sink, and started pumping out some of the pontoons. However, on November 25, 2,790 ft (850 m) of the bridge sank, dumping the contaminated water into the lake along with tons of bridge material. The bridge sank when one pontoon filled and dragged the rest down because they were cabled together and there was no way to separate the sections under load. Fortunately, no one was hurt or killed, since the bridge was closed for renovation and the sinking took some time. All of the sinking was captured on film and shown on live TV.
This shot is from the Seattle side looking East from a viewpoint over the Mt. Baker Tunnel. No small engineering feat, the tunnel carries I-90 under the Mount Baker neighborhood. The city on the left is Bellevue, WA.
If you stay on Interstate 90 for 3100 miles, you'll end up in Boston, Massachusetts.
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This is one of the 18 temporary pontoon bridges (i.e. floating bridges) installed during the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).
This pontoon bridge is over the Ganges (Ganga) river. Those floating bridges are built on top of large empty metal tanks, and are anchored to the river bottom with ropes on the upstream side of the bridge. Those bridges can support trucks up to 10 Tons, but to be safe, the maximum weight was set to 5 Tons. Those bridges are mostly used for pedestrian traffic. During high affluence periods when large crowds are crossing the floating bridges, bridges are one-way, with alternating direction for each other bridge. This rule was taken after a stampede in a previous year caused the bridge railing to fail and many people to fall in the river and drawn (most of the Hindu pilgrims cannot swim!).
The water was very low in the Ganges river at the time, so in fact this bridge was not floating, but just sitting on the sandy bottom of the shallow river.
Kumbh Mela is the largest festival on Earth, taking place once every 12 years, with more than 50 million Hindu pilgrims gathering to pray and bathe in the holy Ganges river.
For more photos and info about the Kumbh Mela festival, read the album description.
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A tour participant descends a ladder into an SR 520 bridge pontoon.
From June 19-22, 2009 WSDOT crews closed the SR 520 floating bridge across Lake Washington for routine maintenance and inspection. During this time, Washington Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond joined the general public, state legislators, and WSDOT staff on a tour of the SR 520 bridge.
Woolston Ferry,
Southampton, England.
On the last day of operation, 11 June 1977.
(Replaced by the Itchen Toll Bridge.)
Ford V4 Corsair
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Port Moody, BC Canada
Sasamat Lake is located within Belcarra Regional Park in Port Moody, British Columbia. It is one of the warmest lakes in Greater Vancouver. At the south end of the lake there is a floating bridge, used for fishing or swimming. At the north end of the lake is White Pine Beach.
(Wikipedia)
Image best viewed in Large screen.
Thank-you for your visit!
I really appreciate it!
Sonja :)
The floating bridge operated across Portsmouth Harbour between Gosport and Portsmouth from 1840 to 1959, more recently perhaps than many might think. The wording of this sign in Gosport Museum and Art Gallery baffles me; the place names make sense but the sense of 'East of England' eludes me.
historyinportsmouth.co.uk/events/floating-bridge.htm
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(WSDOT, July 6, 2009) I-90 westbound traffic backs up on Mercer Island the afternoon of July 6 as vehicles are funneled into the I-90 express lanes because of construction. WSDOT hired General Construction Co. to remove and replace four massive steel expansion joints on the I-90 floating bridge. Crews replaced two of the joints in the I-90 express lanes in May 2009. Crews began working on the I-90 westbound mainline lanes on July 6.
Introduction
NEXT FLOAT is founded in 2000 to provide its special product to water-related business. During the past year, NEXT FLOAT has earned its fame and recognition from all over the world. We have been certified from many international exhibitions from U.A.E., Japan, India, and more.
With our NEXT FLOAT, it can be applied to various businesses or citizen site.
To find out how NEXT FLOAT, visit our website on www.nextfloat.net
What is NEXT FLOAT?
- Made with HDPE: 0% of recycling material is added.
- NEXT FLOAT’s Strength?
Connection Hook’s strength: 2tons of tensile weight
UV protection applied
Ease Assembly
Unlimited application area.
What is DECK on FLOAT?
- Advanced product from NEXT FLOAT with NUT-HOLE on upper surface.
- Advantages?
Eliminate the Excavation or De-Watering construction cost
Transformed to well-made floating bridge or stage.
Any deck meterials (Wood, Rubber, Plastic) can be attached
Ease Assembly
Application Field
Floating Bridge, Boat Dock, Floating Stage, Solar-power Plant, Platform, Light House, Fishery, Barge.
It was a really rainy day today, the dog got soaked, Mr MBM got soaked, I got soaked, the whole of Cowes was soaking! Needed some essentials to cheer us up . . . chocolate and other comforting food, so took a trip on the Chain Ferry to the shop. iPhone in pocket resulted in these couple of photos.
This snap was taken with the iPhone using Retro Camera app, the colouring effect resulted in a very grey effect - which was exactly how the weather has been today.