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Engineering marvel taking shape near Hoover Dam

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on February 8, 2010 at 7:38 am

From the Las Vegas Sun:

“Less than a mile downstream from one of the nation’s best-known engineering marvels, the Hoover Dam, a second is taking shape.

A soaring 1,900-foot span across the gorge created by the Colorado River on the Arizona-Nevada border should be completed this fall, eliminating much of a sometimes hourlong bottleneck as traffic creeps over the dam on the key route between Phoenix and Las Vegas.

When it is scheduled to open in November, motorists will cross the longest bridge of its kind in the western hemisphere, with towering concrete columns that rise above a twin rib arch beneath them.

“It’s pretty spectacular,” said Sidney Spears, a 68-year-old retired truck driver from South Dakota, sitting at the dam and admiring the bridge 1,500 feet away. “This day and age, they are only limited by their imagination.” … “

Read more from the Las Vegas Sun by clicking here.

The Federal Highway Administration updates the process and upcoming milestones of the Hoover Dam Bypass bridge project:

February 8, 2010 · Filed Under Las Vegas & Nevada

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