Posts tagged as Bridges
Good News: 8 Out Of 9 Bridges Probably Okay
"In the country’s 102 largest metro areas, one in nine bridges is structurally deficient. That translates into more than 18,000 precarious structures. Americans drive over bridges in need of repair, replacement or maintenance about 210 million times daily, according to the report. In California alone, that translates into 396 people every second. Put another way, each day the volume of travelers who use deficient bridges in the United States far outnumbers the customers served by McDonald’s worldwide."
The Best Fried Chicken In The World, Galaxy, Universe
I have a recommendation as to where you should go for lunch: Charleston, South Carolina. Now, unless you're in Hanahan or Folly Beach or Mt. Pleasant, it could take you a long time to get there. So you might want to leave soon. But you really should go, because Charleston has some of the very best food you will ever eat anywhere. There is a place there called Jestine's Kitchen, which has become quite famous, and so often has a line of people waiting outside, and so also has lots of people who like to talk about food on the internet dismissing it as a "tourist trap" and inferior to other restaurants of its kind in the area, but you should go there if you like fried chicken, because I went there last Thursday, and it has the best fried chicken I have ever eaten in my life. READ MORE
Something Something, A Joke about Ed Koch and Queens
“'If Mayor Bloomberg wants to name something, he can name Bloomberg L.P. Koch L.P.,'” said Councilman Jumaane D. Williams of Brooklyn, referring to the mayor’s media conglomerate." READ MORE
The Bridge to Somewhere
There's a reason that the notion of selling the Brooklyn Bridge has long served as shorthand for a rudimentary con job. Public authorities own and administer the span, and so documents decreeing private ownership of the thing are so plainly the handiwork of a scam artist that they've basically been retired from circulation as anything other than a Vaudeville-era punch line. READ MORE
They Should Do This With The Arch! (No, Just Kidding)
Hey, want to watch a bridge blow up and then have the video reverse so you can watch it un-blow up and then blow up again in slow motion? A local news crew filmed the demolition of the Union Road Bridge in St. Louis on Friday, and a film production major at nearby Webster University hooked it up so you can. It's fun.
Manhattan Bridge Sways
In case you missed it over the weekend, here is some time-lapse photography of the Manhattan Bridge bending and shaking as trucks and trains go over it. Scary? Yeah, probably. But also a good excuse, should you need one, to decline an invitation to DUMBO. (More here.)
