I guess only real nerds take tours of the Q Bridge construction site on their vacation. And so I did with the Meet Up group, Amazing Events. This was truly a fascinating tour. A construction engineer for the Bridge and then an engineer for the interchange improvement program gave a talk and slide presentation at the DOT in New Haven. I learned so much I can't even begin to repeat it all. I have a whole new regard for the DOT, engineers and workers.
"Extradosed bridges have structural characteristics similar to those of concrete box girder and cable-stayed bridges and have been used for many years in Europe and Japan." It's the first of it's kind in the US. "The original Q-Bridge, a girder and floor beam design, was opened to traffic in 1958 and had only 3 lanes traveling in each direction. By 2015, 140,000 vehicles are expected to travel over the Pearl Harbor Memorial (Q) Bridge
DAILY." (my emphasis)
This tops a robe and stole.
They promised by November of 2016 it'll all be done!!!!
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