Professor Fumolatro
share the road...
The Brooklyn bridge has a wood plank shared walkway for pedestrians and cyclists. In the past the bridge also supported elevated trains and streetcar traffic in the center lanes of the lower level. Train traffic was stopped in 1944; streetcars in 1950. Today the lower level has six lanes for car traffic.
Not sure why but when one thinks of NYC bridges the Brooklyn bridge seem to be 'the' bridge that springs to mind.
Some facts:
Started in 1870 completed in 1883.
Over a mile in length.
Connects Manhattan island with the borough of Brooklyn (and vice versa).
The first steel wire suspension bridge ever built.
When first completed it was the largest suspension bridge in the world. (Bigger by half than the previous record holder.)
In May 2008 the NY celebrated the 125th anniversary of the bridge's opening.
share the road...
The Brooklyn bridge has a wood plank shared walkway for pedestrians and cyclists. In the past the bridge also supported elevated trains and streetcar traffic in the center lanes of the lower level. Train traffic was stopped in 1944; streetcars in 1950. Today the lower level has six lanes for car traffic.
Not sure why but when one thinks of NYC bridges the Brooklyn bridge seem to be 'the' bridge that springs to mind.
Some facts:
Started in 1870 completed in 1883.
Over a mile in length.
Connects Manhattan island with the borough of Brooklyn (and vice versa).
The first steel wire suspension bridge ever built.
When first completed it was the largest suspension bridge in the world. (Bigger by half than the previous record holder.)
In May 2008 the NY celebrated the 125th anniversary of the bridge's opening.