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:
“A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches
Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O, my soul.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“I see four nuns
who sit like a bridge club,
their faces poked out
from under their habits,”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)