Tacoma Narrows Bridge #2

Tacoma, WA - Tyfoid Kid - Friday, September 22nd, 2006 : goo

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So everyone has seen the pictures of what happend to the first bridge across the Tacoma Narrows.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge

They rebuilt that bridge and fixed the issue that caused it to buck wildly in the wind going in and out of the narrows. So as the population has exploded in the Seattle-Tacoma area the two lane bridge just won't cut it anymore so they are putting up a second bridge right next to the old one. We were going to Tacoma but got caught up in the detours and ended up going back and forth over the existing bridge twice in 20 minutes. The project is impressive.

Going over the first time heading for the Olympic Forest.

Heading back down to Tacoma (duh)

The have the cables set with the ends for the bridge sections already on them and the sections are on these huge barges under the bridge stacked 8 or 10 high.

Big sand bags to counter the weight of the machine that's spininng the big cables (I think that's what it's doing.)

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