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TAKOTRON NEWS
Sunday, 1 April 2007
NORTH AVENUE BRIDGE
The 1907 trunnion-post bascule bridge on North Avenue over the Chicago River is being replaced with a new cable-stay/suspension hybrid span. In the meantime, traffic winds around a maze of ad hoc asphalt and over a temporary steel bridge by McHugh Construction, who is carrying out the project. Da Vinci had some interesting temporary bridge solutions that might have worked, too, but I figure they had this modular steel x-truss scheme worked out with an efficient budget.

Leonardo Scheme 01
Leonardo Scheme 02

Posted by thenovakids at 1:40 AM CDT
Updated: Sunday, 1 April 2007 1:41 AM CDT
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Tuesday, 3 April 2007 - 11:02 PM CDT

Name: carleton

This post is so awesome in its boringness. All I care about is how to disperse the yuppies in their oversized SUVs to decongest traffic and general annoying-people-ness around there on Sunday afternoons. Also I had a bad dream concerning this bridge and its reconstruction. Boo.

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