Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)

[The French Tandem]

And near Nantes is the pont de Cheviré, not quite as big as pont de St Nazaire but more elegant in my view.

This one is amazing! It looks like the road is held in the air by some kind of magic.

[bobb]

^ That's ugly. I prefer my bridges old skool.... comme ça...

[Von Broad]

Personnaly, I don't like the proportions of the pont de St Nazaire, it doesn't look very efficient to me, I might be wrong as I've never designed something spanning more than 50m!

But, certainly for me, that lack elegance as you describe it, gives a kind of foreboding quality as you approach, especially when you know you're just about to cross it by bike. I was lucky, the weather was kind and it was early Saturday morning, but even with those conditions I found it very challenging, particularly with the cycle lane being very narrow.

Here's another view:



eck: The Tour crossed in 2011

[Kim]

A rather spiffing ^_SEEKRIT bridge that you can only see if you go for a bike ride in winter and happen to peer at the undergrowth at the right moment.  Nikki and I discovered it by accident last week, but didn't stop to take a photo as we'd just overtaken a pair of horses.

[Pingu]

River Don, Inverurie.


IMG_2705 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[Ruth]

DSCF0237 by Lindagordinho, on Flickr

[Pingu]

Forth bridges, Stirling:


IMG_2720 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_2722 by The Pingus, on Flickr


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[David Martin]

Isn't that the first of forth?

[Pingu]

There was a bit of froth on the Forth.

[sas]

[Torslanda]

Le Pont de Normandie . . .



Nuff sed

[Deano]

I think we've had it before, but here it is again, the Newport Vertical Lift Bridge in Middlesbrough:



You can see a bit of the lifting mechanism at the left. It hasn't been raised since 1990 (caveat Wikipedia) - I'm sure I was there for it, and that seems about the right timescale.

[Deano]

Beggar's Bridge, Eskdale, North Yorks Moors:

[Nuncio]

Crescent City Connection bridge, New Orleans.

In sun



and fog

[CrinklyLion]

I don't often actually _take_ bridge photies myself... but the EldestCub just emailed me this one that he took at the wedding party we went to yesterday.  Our taxi driver had to call to get the electric gates to the estate to open and then drive us accross the grounds and over the bridge in question when delivering us to the venue.  It was particularly resplendent on the return journey in the dark.



That is the lake from which Mr Darcy famously emerges.  I told our hosts that I was really _most_ disappointed that they didn't plan to recreate the moment

[Ruth]

Mr Darcy's bridge?  (sigh)

Shall we do a cycle pilgrimage to this spot, d'you think?

[Deano]

Royal Border Bridge at Berwick, lit up for the night time (includes speeding train):

[Ruth]

DSCF0262 by Lindagordinho, on Flickr


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A few of the bridges we saw on our walk in the Cheviots on Saturday. 

[mcshroom]

Some pics from this evening's ride


Rail bridge near Seascale


Bridge below Nether Wasdale


On the way out of Wasdale

[Moleman76]

(apologies for the non-bridge portions of the images which will appear)

Portland, Oregon in the US of A has a number of iconic bridges across the Willamette River.  Portland is also well-known as a cycling city, and there's a local organized ride which takes riders over all of them which bikes are allowed on.

But, the Steel Bridge is unique.  A vertical lift bridge with two levels.  The lower level can be raised independently of the upper, or both can go up together.

[Afasoas]

Canal bridges

[Pingu]

Bridges in Bamberg, Germany:


IMG_2827 by The Pingus, on Flickr


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IMG_2825 by The Pingus, on Flickr


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[Pingu]

Nuremberg bridges:


IMG_2889 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_2891 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_2922 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_2924 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_2925 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[L CC]

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Sigh. I can map out your walk from those.

How come all you lot have been to the ancestral homelands and I haven't, nor will I get there before the end of May?

[billplumtree]

Slaters Bridge, in Little Langdale.  Tilberthwaite slate miners, for the use of.

A bridge of two halves, this one: simple stone slab at one end,



and a nice little well-trodden slate (natch) arch at t'other,