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)
“I was at work that morning. Someone came riding like mad
Over the bridge and up the road—Farmer Rouf’s little lad.
Bareback he rode; he had no hat; he hardly stopped to say,
“Morgan’s men are coming, Frau, they’re galloping on this way.”
—Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894)
“Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.”
—Paul Simon (b. 1949)