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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    11/20/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    I already have plenty of reasons to want to visit Japan. Now I have at least three more!
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    11/20/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    World's longest bridge over water that's covered by ice for part of the year
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/20/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    Don't forget the Big Dig in Boston. Using federal money for a local project, your tax dollars hard at work...for someone else! Thanks, guys.

    And right after it opened, it started breaking, and leaking, and squashing people in their cars. Way to pick the lowest bidder! Your tax money hard at...oh, forget it.

    I guess this was really a page for awe-inspiring and aesthetically remarkable structures, not aw-hell inspiring, underground structures.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/20/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    In the States we seem to save our most remarkable infrastructural efforts for bridges.

    My personal favorite, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. It's damned long - I can't remember exactly how long, but you're on it long enough to get tired of it, I think over ten miles - and in at least one spot you dive under the water for a mile or so. Because of ships, you know. They can't dive to go under the bridge.

    One wonders - wouldn't it have been cheaper to make the bridge taller for a while? Then the ships could go under. No need for bilge pumps and vent fans. Just saying.
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    Image of muhnkee_2 - Avantime Owner and 100% Jaloper muhnkee_2 - Avantime Owner and 100% Jaloper
    11/20/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    how about the famous bendy bridge in Sao Paulo, Brazil
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    11/20/09


    @muhnkee_2 - Avantime Owner and 100% Jaloper:
    though it looks like its from a sci/fi film its a 100% real and even more impressive in real life
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/20/09

    @muhnkee_2 - Avantime Owner and 100% Jaloper: So, Burning Man found a job? Good, good.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    11/20/09


    @muhnkee_2 - Avantime Owner and 100% Jaloper: Good choice. I'm partial to the Juscelino Kubitschek bridge in Brasilia.
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    Image of ndhapple ndhapple
    11/20/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    Can I just go ahead and recommend the Golden Gate and Bay Bridge (western span) because no one else has?
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    Image of skierpage skierpage
    11/20/09

    @ndhapple: The Bay Bridge western span is two back-to-back suspension bridges that meet at a central anchorage built in 100 feet of water. The mechanical stresses on that anchorage are unimaginable but you'd never know as you drive over it, hypnotized by the lights on the suspension cables rising and falling four times.

    In 1936 it wasn't possible to do it in a single 4000+ foot suspension bridge, so the Golden Gate bridge gets all the love. But for those who know, the Bay Bridge is the greater engineering achievement.
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    Image of ndhapple ndhapple
    11/20/09

    @skierpage: I think someone brought that up in the coverage of the latest problems with the cantilever section of the Eastern Span. Both bridges (Golden Gate and Western Span of the Bay Bridge) are triumphs of ingenuity and engineering prowess.

    And for everyone looking to gun it through a tunnel, the tunnel through Treasure Island that connects the Eastern Span to the Western Span is just fantastic. You can hear the reverberations off the ceiling and as you exit, you begin the decline towards the San Francisco skyline. I want TopGear to do a Bay Area episode so badly.

    #tips
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    Image of Lost in the age of Aerostar Lost in the age of Aerostar
    11/20/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    It looks pretty cool from the air, and only from this perspective can you appreciate the amount of land area it takes so that we the commuters can merge between freeways at high speed.

    (I-75 and 696 - Ferndale, MI)
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    11/19/09

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    I nominate Jalopnik's hiring of Sam Smith as World's Best Hire of 2009!
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    Image of Sam Smith Sam Smith
    11/20/09

    @Maxichamp: I am happy to see that the check I sent you cleared. Carry on.
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    Image of bitjockey bitjockey
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    How about the number one spot to commit suicide in Santa Barbara county?

    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of DLBlast DLBlast
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    Dallas? Hell yeah! Cept they forgot the High 5, americas first and largest 5 level interchange
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    Image of DonSchenck DonSchenck
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    Lots and lots of concrete. Concrete is kept together with rebar. Rebar rules. Rebar is cut and bent on really, really cool machines.

    That my dad invented. No shit. Rebarmatic patent hangs on the wall at his house.
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    Image of DonSchenck DonSchenck
    11/19/09


    @DonSchenck: To wit:
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    Image of UGAdawg UGAdawg
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    I'd like to add this considering that this was just recently completed on of the busiest section of I-95. I present the Springfield Interchange in Springfield, VA (south of DC).
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    Hey, wait a minute!

    Since when is New York City the greatest city in the world?
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    Image of cityag cityag
    11/19/09

    @pauljones: since they totally re-built the triboro bridge without shutting it down.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    11/19/09

    @cityag: And?
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    11/20/09

    @pauljones: Since you can search for pron shops on Times Square billboards using your Droid phone.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    11/20/09

    @brandegee: Okay, that's just hilarious.

    #tips
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    Image of Buster Brew Buster Brew
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    The Millau Viaduct, in France is quite tasty also.
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    Image of Clown Shoe Pilot Clown Shoe Pilot
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    Another totally awesome bit of infrastructure - the Millau Viaduct in France.

    It's fairly long and crazy tall.

    Edit: dangit. Mr Dude beat me to it, but not by name, only by image
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    Edited by Clown Shoe Pilot at 11/19/09 6:22 PM Clown Shoe Pilot was starred Clown Shoe Pilot was unstarred
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