City - Houston State - TEXAS Country - United States
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Of course my camera has been secured on a tripod for this photo. What I miscalculated was the effect of wind over my equipment at the edge of Houston Ship Channel. As a result, most of the detail has been blurring by accident. If the picture looks like a musical page with dancing notes to you, I am so sorry, and I will return to rework on the project.
Fred Hartman Bridge?s Data:
*Cost: US$117,500,000.00
*Maximum Height: 440 feet
*Maximum Length: 1,250 feet
*Two sets of steel-reinforced diamonds carry two separate bridge decks of Texas 146 to a height of 178 feet that keeps them away from the traffic of the busy seaport. The towers are each 440 feet tall, and the bridge itself is 1,250 feet long. Photographing the bridge can be difficult because of the lack of access roads and the marshy terrain in the area. The only way to really appreciate this bridge and its yellow diamonds is to have someone else drive you over it.
*Capacity of 200,000 vehicles per day compared to the Baytown Tunnel's capacity of 25,000 per day.
*Over 618 miles of cable strand were used in the construction of the bridge.
*There are 192 cables, the longest ones stretching 650 feet from the bridge to the towers.
*More than three million cubic feet of concrete, enough to pave 13.86 miles of two-lane highway with full shoulders, was used in the construction.
*More than 40 million pounds of steel was used to construct the bridge, the weight of over 16,000 automobiles.
*The double diamond towers supporting the bridge stand as tall as a 45-story building.
*Composite steel and concrete decks are 78 feet in width each way with a 15-foot separation between (total square footage coverage in excess of eight acres).
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