Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

[low_delta]

I got a postcard from ravengirl.

At 24 miles long, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana is the world longest overwater highway bridge.

The Causeway is one of the oldest prestressed concrete bridges in the United States. To build the bridge, engineers loaded pieces of the bridge onto barges and transported them to the construction points on the lake. The Causeway consists of two parallel bridges that are supported by more than 9,500 hollow pilings 55 inches in diameter. Since its opening in 1956, traffic has grown from 3,000 vehicles per day to 3,500 vehicles during a peak hour.

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[specificocean.livejournal.com]

Some day, I'll go to the Big Easy...

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

coolio, hoolio~

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Thank you, dear!

[beadge.livejournal.com]

When I was bored one weekend, I went to Sam's Club and bought 5 million matches, and recreated a 1/2 scale replica. Unfortunately, it burned down.

nothing good can come of playing with matches

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

How did you manage to get the 12-1/2 miles of land to build it upon?

Re: nothing good can come of playing with matches

[beadge.livejournal.com]

There's plenty of marsh land east of orlando. Boy! what a bon fire that was! Lasted all of 30 seconds. It reminded me of the Hindenburg disaster. The way the night sky lit up, the folks in orlando thought there was an accindent at the Canaveral space center. Unfortunately, an opposum who took up residency in one of the spans lost his life.

Re: nothing good can come of playing with matches

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I take it back about nothing good.

Damn oppossums.

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

I think Pontchartrain is just below Tchopitoulas in my ten favorite words from N'awlins.