Plans for a floating bridge over Washington’s Highway 520 have generated years of dissension and cost taxpayers $221 million. The funds have gone to planning, environmental studies, public meetings and engineering to prepare for the $4.65 billion project, which has not been started.
And an environmental impact study on the restoration has been released. The revised draft details the port's plans to increase safety and improve navigation with a replacement bridge that is taller, wider, stronger and better suited to serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation's busiest port complex.
From Singapore's Henderson Waves, to Lombard Street in San Francisco, Chris Sweeney at Popular Mechanics is the go-to guy for intelligence on the “strangest” infrastructure around the world. Over the last four months, he’s explored hundreds of bridges, roads, and now tunnels, with more to come. The following interview with Sweeney sheds light on his process, what he’s learned, and how stories like this can help support our industry.
This hour-long interview with Moses from 1977, which comes from the archives of THIRTEEN/ WNET in New York, is posted here courtesy: PBS's Blueprint America:
