Bridge
Several engineers have designed bridges on various alignments and with differing structural configurations. Professor T.Y. Lin’s proposal for a crossing between Point Oliveros and Point Cires featured deep piers, a length of 14 kilometres (8.7 mi), 910 metres (3,000 ft) towers, and a 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) span, exceeding the current longest bridge span.
In 2004, architect Eugene Tsui published his concept for a floating and submerged bridge, connected at a three-mile wide island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.
In 2004, the Science Museum published an image of the proposed Gibraltar Straits road bridge.
A bridge spanning the Strait of Gibraltar is described in futurist author Arthur C. Clarke's 1979 science fiction novel The Fountains of Paradise.
Read more about this topic: Strait Of Gibraltar Crossing
Famous quotes containing the word bridge:
“What need the bridge much broader than the flood?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Home! Yes! she would see Trafalgar Square, again; and Nelson on his plinth; and Chelsea Bridge as it dissolved into the Thames at twilight ... and St. Paul’s, the single Amazon breast of her beloved native city.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.”
—Paul Simon (b. 1949)