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  • miketpoto
    Shabisquik The Ghetto Queen
    • Jan 2005
    • 4223

    Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

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    France shows off tallest bridge

    The bridge is 23 metres taller than the Eiffel Tower
    The world's highest road bridge has been inaugurated in southern France by President Jacques Chirac.
    The Millau bridge over the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains is more than 300m (984ft) high - taller even than the country's Eiffel Tower.

    The bridge, which opens to traffic on Thursday, was built to clear summer traffic jams around the town.

    The BBC's Paris correspondent, Caroline Wyatt, says the bridge is one of the most breathtaking ever built.

    She says that with its concrete and steel pillars soaring high above the morning fog in the Tarn Valley, the construction makes a spectacular sight.

    'Delicacy of a butterfly'

    Seven slender piers support the roadway, rising into seven graceful pylons bound to the bridge with what look like cobwebs of steel, our correspondent says.

    "The bridge is just on the clouds," Millau Mayor Jacques Godfrain told the BBC's World Today programme.

    "The architect, Norman Foster, gave us a model of art."


    TALL ORDER
    Cost: 394m euros (?272m; $524m)
    Highest point: 343m (1,125ft)
    Vehicle height: 270m (885ft)

    Mr Foster said the bridge was designed to have the "delicacy of a butterfly".

    "A work of man must fuse with nature. The pillars had to look almost organic, like they had grown from the earth," the world-renowned British architect said in an interview with regional daily newspaper Midi Libre.

    Like Concorde and the Channel Tunnel, the bridge is Franco-British.

    French construction group Eiffage - that built the Eiffel Tower - financed the project in return for the right to collect receipts from a bridge toll for 75 years.


    Find out more about the Millau bridge

    At-a-glance

    The bridge is now a source of pride for Millau, which believes many more tourists will come to admire one of the engineering wonders of the 21st Century, our correspondent says.

    The construction also removes a bottleneck at the town, completing a new motorway link between Paris and the Mediterranean.

    The construction of the steel bridge - now weighing about 36,000 tonnes - began in December 2001, using innovative techniques.

    From the north and south sides of the valley, the metal sections of the structure were assembled, lifted slightly and then carefully slotted into place on each of the supporting pillars.

    Motorists are expected to pay 4.6 euros (?3.18; $5.60) for a trip across the bridge.

  • hobbes2oo
    Getting Somewhere
    • Jun 2004
    • 196

    #2
    Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

    nope it looks nice, and I can bet that the BASE jumpers will be all over this

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    • miketpoto
      Shabisquik The Ghetto Queen
      • Jan 2005
      • 4223

      #3
      Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

      Its already finished, but you couldnt pay enough to drive over that thing.... I have nightmares about gigantic bridges and there's something about driving over 1000 feet in the air over LAND, let alone water.... and it's so narrow, oye

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      • unkownartist
        Banned
        • Nov 2005
        • 4146

        #4
        Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

        basejumps

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        • speciale
          Are you Kidding me??
          • Dec 2005
          • 3728

          #5
          Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

          saw a show on discovery about it. pretty cool concept on how they built it
          Originally posted by Miroslav
          It's not like he grabbed his balls and sucked his dick. It's not like he gave the Saudis the original copy of the Constitution to use as toilet paper. It's not like he gave away the secret recipe to the Colonel's chicken. .
          No Soup for You

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          • mmglobal
            Gold Gabber
            • Sep 2004
            • 536

            #6
            Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

            wow! I've never seen anything like it..it's beautiful! (on the other hand, I'm with you poto, not sure my fear of heights could be subsided in order to drive over that thing)
            Peace.

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            • miketpoto
              Shabisquik The Ghetto Queen
              • Jan 2005
              • 4223

              #7
              Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

              FUCKING WOW


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              • tsesan
                Getting Somewhere
                • Mar 2006
                • 139

                #8
                Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

                Looks like the original new Bay Bridge we were supposed to get in the SF Bar Area. But since we have no $$$ now, I think the new Bay Bridge will look like Millau without the pillars...

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                • miketpoto
                  Shabisquik The Ghetto Queen
                  • Jan 2005
                  • 4223

                  #9
                  Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

                  Isnt it going to be the world's fist single tower self supporting suspension bridge? Or something along those lines.... where the anchorages are in the tower itself, which is actually 4 towers with damper rings for earthquake shock absorbsion?

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                  • sakio pod
                    SALAD TOSSER
                    • Jun 2004
                    • 6034

                    #10
                    Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

                    thats pretty kool

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                    • KinKyJ
                      Platinum Poser
                      • Jun 2004
                      • 13438

                      #11
                      Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

                      where's my bungee gear?

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                      • Kat
                        A pretty fn good milkshake
                        • Mar 2006
                        • 4695

                        #12
                        Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

                        if this wouldn't cure my fear of hights I don't know what would..

                        awesome
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                        • Jibgolly
                          Vortexuralizor
                          • Jun 2004
                          • 20773

                          #13
                          Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

                          i'm only curious why you were posting this at 8:40am.

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                          • Hos
                            Are you Kidding me??
                            • Jun 2004
                            • 4286

                            #14
                            Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

                            black is the new black www.mercuryserver.com

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                            • picklemonkey
                              Double hoodie beer monster
                              • Jun 2004
                              • 15373

                              #15
                              Re: Does this scare anyone else to death? SFW

                              fucking beautiful

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