Surprised? Welcome to the wonderful world of public infrastructure, where the deadlines are made up and the budgets don’t count. Bridges are particularly expensive - as in billions of dollars expensive. When you live your life surrounded by skyscrapers and other marvels of human engineering, it’s very easy to forget how difficult these mammoth edifices are to construct and maintain. Suspension bridges are engineering wonders and are entirely necessary, but they’re exorbitantly expensive. No sir, those old-school 30-foot bridges made entirely of stone that ran over creeks aren’t cut out to provide support for thousands of automobiles over massive bodies of water, sometimes multiple miles long. They’re quite literally the lifelines that keep the place running, and these aren’t your great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather’s bridges. Ask any urban planner and they’ll explain in mind-numbing detail why bridges are key to modern urban cores situated by water. It’s par for the course when living by large bodies of water or on islands - in fact bridges are the reason a lot of these cities are able to maintain a regular flow of transportation to and from their urban cores. Loads of us travel over bridges on a daily basis, generally by car. Sit down and stay awhile friend, there’s more where that came from.
Did we just start from an overused metaphor and cycle it into its most literal interpretation? You’re damn right we did. The concept of bridges catching aflame and burning to the ground may be useful as a metaphor to the layman, but it's an absolutely horrifying mental image for engineers, politicians and businessmen who have a vested interest in the construction and maintenance of transportation infrastructure. 2,600 tonnes of steel and 98,000 cubic feet of rocks and crushed stones to construct the bridge. connecting the port town of Rameswaram on Pamban Island to Mandapam on the Indian mainland in Tamil Nadu. As far as life advice goes, ‘don’t burn bridges’ surely ranks among the most frequently cited ones - and with good reason. The approximately 2.3-kilometre-long Pamban Bridge is the first ever Indian sea bridge.
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