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Started by Voyager, January 18, 2009, 08:13:23 AM

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cpzilliacus

#125
October 26, 2012, 11:59:01 AM  
I don't think anyone has mentioned the Blue Ridge Parkway's Linn Cove Viaduct in Avery County, North Carolina.

Images of the viaduct under construction (late 1970's and early 1980's) from the FHWA's Web site:



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tvketchum

#126
November 11, 2012, 10:15:56 AM  
http://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,4616,7-151-9620_11154_11188-29665--,00.html

Besides the Mackinac Bridge, the Cut River Bridge is an excellent structure, elegant, and fitting it's locale. It has often been described as "a million dollar bridge over a nickle river".

cpzilliacus

#127
November 11, 2012, 04:57:46 PM  
The bridge that carries the Md. 200 (ICC) toll road over the Rock Creek (yes, the same creek that runs through the District of Columbia) is an attractive structure, but most motorists have never seen it from the side (click link below for Washington Post article from 2011 with image).

ICC aesthetics: Earth tones, arches and more that motorists might not notice
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