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#viaduct

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@realtegan I remember that. It didn't bother me _as_ much but I do remember waiting for that fucking thing to go Chomp Chomp and crush everything under it someday.

I paid a LOT of attention to the teardown and went down a couple of times to watch and collect some Viaduct Rocks to keep, too. (Apparently enough of us did that that they ended up collecting a bunch so people could pick up some at Sound Transit HQ. :D )

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A picture of the old Seattle Viaduct with a gap between sections and a visible Speed Limit 40 MPH captioned THIS TRACK IS BULLSHIT, YOU'RE NEVER GONNA MAKE THAT JUMP DOIN' 40 what the hell nintendo seriously
#seattle#viaduct#nintendo
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This Is My Glasgow

The Avon Viaduct near Linlithgow. With over 20 arches and 404 metres in length, this viaduct was built in 1841 as part of Scotland's first intercity railway line connecting Haymarket Station in Edinburgh with Queen Street Station in Glasgow. A series of such viaducts, as well as embankments and tunnels, allowed the creation of an almost flat route between the two cities.

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An early Victorian stone viaduct crossing a river in Central Scotland.
#glasgow#edinburgh#railways
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Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@gbhnews these are viaduct rocks! They were part of the old Alaskan Way Viaduct along the waterfront in Seattle that we tore down as unsafe after many decades. (This story may remind you of something and was indeed similar.)

Anyway I went down a few times to watch in person - it really had defined the downtown waterfront for decades - and one time I decided to collect some viaduct rocks. I even got one of the workers to verify that yep, that’s genuine viaduct! xD

Very light grey to white irregular rocks, with small black spots, in a small glass jar with a brass-coloured lid, sitting on a bookshelf
#seattle#AlaskanWayViaduct#viaduct
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Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

Since the temporary ferry terminal walkway went down last week I've been checking in on this one former support column, because:

This is the last standing piece of the Alaskan Way Viaduct.

That's why it's where it is and why the new lanes bend around it but in a way that is clearly temporary. The asphalt sections will become large planters once that last viaduct piece goes down and they can relocate the lanes to their final intended locations.

And now that the new overhead walkway is open, they'll actually be able to do that soon.

If they ever need to take the old viaduct out of storage in the Battery Street Tunnel and put it back together it'll be missing a piece xD

A view north on Alaskan Way from Yesler, showing four lanes of traffic in a clearly temporary arrangement. At far back is the new overhead walkway to the upgraded ferry terminal; one block closer is a single column of concrete pointed to by a large red arrow. This column was one of the those holding up a now-removed temporary walkway to the new ferry terminal building. It was made by repurposing a support column of the Alaskan Way Viaduct as it was being torn down, and as such, is the final remaining piece of that viaduct.
#seattle#viaduct#AlaskanWayViaduct
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