As part of a unique art project celebrating its 75th anniversary, the West span of the Bay Bridge has been outfitted with 25, 000 LED lights that will display a variety of undulating designs nightly for the next two years.

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Those trailers, in turn, can only cross from New Jersey to Staten Island by completely closing the westbound lanes of the Goethals Bridge, moving one at a time over the span at a maximum speed of 5 mph, Ms. Burtis said.

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The problems at Airbus are analogous to assigning two crews to build a bridge where each starts construction on the opposite banks of a river and, as the bridge comes together at mid-span, they discover that the two sides do not match.

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With a central span of 1, 991 metres (6, 532 feet), the Akashi Kaikyo bridge, which opens on April 5th, between Kobe and Awaji Island in Osaka Bay, is bigger than Britain's Humber bridge and longer than the Great Belt East bridge that has just been built in Denmark.

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The temporary fix is a four-lane span consisting of two 24-foot-wide structures to replace the collapsed portion of the bridge and allow drivers to cross the river at reduced speeds.

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