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I’ve been a little bit grumpy for the past few days, after getting word that my local office is moving in a few months, and my commute will go from being a leisurely drive on back roads to a grind on nasty freeway traffic. However, at least I shouldn’t have to face the sort of nastiness [...] 
This wee brings us to Thailand (View in Google Maps) This is the new (opened in 2006) Dipangkorn Rasmijoti Bridge, a.k.a the Mega Bridge. It carries the Industrial Ring Road across the Chao Phraya River, and connects Bangkok with the Samut Prakan Province.
Last week, we visited the host city of this year’s Summer Olympics. So, this week, we’ll visit the host for the 2012 Games – London.
This would be the iconic Tower Bridge, carrying the A100 across the Thames River immediately southeast of the Tower of London. It’s a drawbridge, and was opened in 1894. Traffic using the [...] 
This week brings us to Dhaka, Bangladesh One of the few prominent highway features in Dhaka is the Babu Bazar Bridge, which spans the Buriganga River. It’s one of two bridges spanning the river — rather remarkable considering the metropolitan area is home to roughly seven million people.
This week takes us to the bi-continental metropolis of Istanbul: (View in Google Maps) The Bosphorus Bridge is the first of two bridges to span the Bosphorus, separating Europe from Asia. It’s a 4954 foot-long suspension bridge completed in 1973, and it has since been superceded by the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge as the “through traffic” route [...]
A couple of blogs I follow have mentioned that the May issue of Popular Mechanics includes a feature called, “10 Pieces of U.S. Infrastructure We Must Fix Now”. I’ve seen the feature mentioned in the context of Atlanta’s water shortage, but the entire list is actually rather interesting to me (not surprising, given [...]
This week takes us to China: (View in Google Maps) This is the Yangpu Bridge (杨浦大桥), an 8.4 kilometer bridge which provides a link between Pudong and the Yangpu District of Shanghai. It is one part of the Inner Ring Road of Shanghai’s freeway system, and it’s center span of just over 600 meters renders it [...]
Back to Japan this week: (View in Google Maps) This is the Tempozan Interchange in Osaka, an interesting collection of ramps where Routes 4 and 5 (Wangan Route) and 16 (Osaka-ko Route) of the Hanshin Expressway (阪神高速道路) meet next to the Tempozan Harbor Village, home to the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan and the Tempozan Harbor Village Ferris [...]
Even though Hong Kong has been returned to China for over a decade now, the autonomy granted to the Hong Kong S.A.R. means that the border between mainland China and the former British Colony still functions like an international border. Consider, for example the Lok Ma Chau ( 落馬洲) border crossing: (View in Google Maps) To [...]
We’ll stay in India for a second week. Mumbai this time: (View in Google Maps) This is the Vashi Bridge, a six-lane bridge connecting the satellite city of Navi Mumbai with Mumbai proper. Just to the north, you can see the predecessor span, which is apparently still open albeit only to two-wheeled traffic. For a nice picture [...] |
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