This description is good as far as it goes, which isn’t very far. Gustav Lindenthal, despite being a successful bridge designer, spent decades redesigning a railroad suspension bridge for the Hudson River. His version was never built, but his promotion of a Hudson River bridge is one of the origins of the George Washington Bridge, which unfortunately does not carry rail.
“Architect’s drawing”…harumph.
What if it did have a rail capacity, I wonder?
I was in one of the worst traffic jams of my life one Labor Day weekend a couple years ago when I had to cross the GW.
(It wasn’t THE WORST, because I had to take Amagansett the same weekend. That was THE WORST.)
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In theory, Bergen County would be even more densely populated but with shorter and less-polluting commutes.
Take the LIE to Amagansett, that is.
I have a highway cam of me doing a cool 7 mph way out towards the South Fork.
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7 mph? You’re lucky the Suffolk cops didn’t bust you for speeding.
“Architect’s drawing”…harumph.
yeah, if engineers could draw this harrumph might carry more weight.
If architects could design load-bearing harumphs, they’d be engineers.
If architects could design load-bearing harumphs, they’d be engineers.
Some of us are both.
I thought Dr. Doolittle had the only Pushmepullyou in existence.
Dr. PAYlittle, by my experience.
Yeah, Mel Brooks could never get a harrumph out of his architect.