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This old (1968) bridge structure in the Port of Long Beach (on right) started coming down today. The new one, immediately overhead, is built to accommodate taller ships, deeper shipping channels, & sea level rise. Inestimable tons of concrete, chasing industrial sublime
Cement buttresses and pylons against blue sky, road in foreground
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The arch used to span and connect the lower roadway but this is it severed and being lowered onto a waiting barge. Idk where it goes next. Reclaiming all the steel? Those towers on the right handle cement ingredients. And the scale of all this is… large
Water in foreground and two bridge structures, one being dismantled, as described
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STS: The bleeding heart progressive cope for indulging a repressed tech-nerd obsession 🤣 If I just told people you studied radio, open source projects, and port/logistics infrastructure and asked them to guess other things about you it would lead to funny results
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