Tagged With "Oresund Bridge"

Interesting, The George Washington Bridge is always undergoing repainting. It takes about 2 years to completely repaint the bridge, and when they finish they start again.

I guess this is true of all the great bridges. I know the same happens at the Golden Gate Bridge in san Francisco.

We have a friend who has worked as a bridge painter, including, I believe, the GWB. He told us that the pace of the painting and the size of the crew is calibrated to make it a permanent job. The big difference for the Oresund is the vast amount of surface...

TV-like chaos as the Oresund Bridge held a large-scale emergency drill to test response times and equipment.

After 16 years in service, the bridge between Sweden and Denmark is ready for new paint...and it will take 15 years to do it.

Sweden's plan for mandatory ID checks at borders, designed to reduce the flow of refugees seeking asylum, is about to have an unintended consequence: reducing service and snarling travel across the Oresund bridge between Sweden and Denmark. As a response to the controls, to take effect on January 4, SJ, Sweden's national rail operator, is cancelling all cross-border service to Denmark in order not to take on responsibility for the ID checks, and Skanetrafiken, which operates the commuter...