Kansas City: The Hannibal Bridge

The history of the Chicago Skyway began in 1928, when the City Council of Chicago—motivated by the desire to strengthen connections between the city and the country’s Midwestern industrial base—requested a study for an elevated roadway to be constructed above the Pennsylvania Rail Road’s right of way. Although this proposal did not ultimately come to fruition, the planning set the stage on which the road would be built adjacent to this railroad. Concurrently, the Chicago Plan Commission had begun researching a southern extension of Lake Shore Drive beyond Jackson Park as a means to connect the city with Indiana. This study resulted in two possibilities for extending the roadway. The first possibility was to extend Lake Shore Drive along Stony Island Avenue to the Pennsylvania Railroad Right of way where it would proceed in the same manner as proposed in the 1928 plan; the second possibility was to simply extend the roadway along lake fill to Rainbow Beach Park, where it would then merge onto South Commercial Avenue which would carry it to Indiana Avenue.

The first completed steel bridge was the Eads Bridge, in St. Louis Missouri. Steel was a very new material and was just starting to become commercially available. Steel was a smart choice to use because it is extremely hard and resists rusting. The Eads Bridge was the longest arch bridge in the world, of 510 feet long. St. Louis became a very important city in the midwest and had to really compete with Chicago during the Civil War. After the Civil War, St. Louis started growing in all directions. “.... the city of St. Louis wanted to reestablish its prewar dominance as the economic powerhouse of the midwest” (Ostrow 75). The main reason to build the Eads Bridge was to connect settlers from the East to the lands of the West. At the time there

In the small town of Waco, Texas who would have thought it was once well known for the structure of a bridge, the Waco Suspension Bridge to be exact. Up until 1870, the Brazos River was just a simple river that had no special meaning to it. The land around it was empty, occasionally you would find cattlemen pushing their cattle across stream, but that was only because you could not find one bridge that spanned the eight hundred miles of river flowing through Central Texas. This caused a serious transportation issue for merchants and travelers. It became clear that a better means of crossing the river was necessary.

Hernando DeSoto Bridge on Interstate 40. The bridge on Interstate 40 is on the exit route from Memphis, as well as Tennessee completely, as it separates the city and state from the state of Mississippi. There were over 1,000 protesters that day in Memphis that marched against the violence against black men and women and black children. While this march was considered peaceful, they put many officers in danger by shutting down traffic on a busy Interstate 40 bridge. The violence in Memphis stints from great racial strain in the community due to the amount of crime and black on black killings that lead officers into very dangerous situations.

When a huge storm caused the Missouri River to overflow in 1993, its water swept through Hardin. Water swept through Hardin,destroying homes and other buildings. Then something terrible happened that the town would never be the same: the dead rose up from the cemetery. It destroyed homes and buildings, and unearthing nearly 600 coffins from the local cemetery. As storm after storm pummeled the Midwestern United States, rivers began to overflow their banks. Throughout the summer, floodwater destroyed homes and businesses, and roads and bridges were washed away. The flooding didn’t and unit fall, and by then, more 20 million acres of land. Fifty people had died, and 55,000 homes were damaged or destroyed.

One of the earliest efforts made by the U.S. government was allocating around $25,000 to build a harbour, which in addition helped by the local citizens who raised money to buy a dredging machine. Then there was a problem with the city’s bad drainage from mud and water that led to the grade levels of the city streets be lifted. Later on, a canal route was built as a response to Chicago’s poor quality of roads and waterways, which was funded by the European creditors. As the Illinois and Michigan Canal opened for traffic, the regional economy sharply improved. At last, Chicago’s most prominent second natural advantage was the construction of railroads, making it seems as the centre point of everything around it.

The article “Just a Half a Mile from the Mississippi Bridge”: The Mississippi River Valley Origins of Rock and Roll” was written by Dr. Michael Allen Ph.D. who is a history professor of the School of Arts and Sciences, at the University of Washington, Tacoma. The article is part of a work that Allen is currently working on titled, “Mississippi River Valley: The Course of American Civilization”, which discusses the significance and relevance of the Mississippi River area in American history. Because Allen is writing from the geographic distance of the Northwest, he may have a more objective viewpoint of historical events than someone who is living inside Southern culture. The article was written in 2015 for the Southern Quarterly, which is a

I was merely walking to work when I thought I saw death. I never saw so much horror and disgust as I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River on March 7, 1965. I was never a part of the march, I was going to work but as a black man that didn't matter.

Thornton Wilder’s Bridge of San Luis Rey is framed by Brother Juniper’s analysis of the deaths of the main characters. The collapse of the bridge helps explore how each of the main characters comes to succeed or fail at coping with the loss of the ones they love, as well as how their views on love shaped them. Parallels will first be drawn between the collective experiences of the characters, followed by an overview the responses to their respective conflicts. Women such as the Abbess, and the Perichole will also be explored despite not being present on the bridge. While not quite sharing the same aims as Brother Juniper’s investigation, the collapse of the bridge did indeed happen for reasons relating to the victims themselves.

I read an article about a light that was floating over the St. Louis Arch. A man named Chase videotaped the light on August 2nd. To some people the light looked like a drone, Chinese lantern, or UFO and another video from a surveillance camera showed the same light over the Arch.

In Illinois, Route 66 ran through a densely populated area. Illinois had considerable infrastructure, including modern road systems. When Route 66 was officially commission, it took over U.S. State Route 4, which was a pre-existing road that was already a paved, two-lane road between Chicago and St,Louis. Because of Illinois’ population and development pressure, Route 66 was constantly doing repairs, resurfacing, and rerouting the road. The original idea was try and bypass as many rural towns as possible to prevent traffic, but with the growing cities, this would prove to be a difficult

The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is the tallest man-made national monument in the United States. It is 630 feet wide at its base and stands 630 feet tall. Visitors ride a tram to the observation room at the top. During a nationwide competition in 1947-48, architect Eero Saarinen's inspired design for a 630-foot stainless steel arch was chosen as a perfect monument to the spirit of the western pioneers. Construction of the Arch began in 1963 and was completed on October 28, 1965.The Arch has foundations sunken 60 feet into the ground, and is built to withstand earthquakes and high winds. It sways up to one inch in a 20 mph wind, and is built to sway up to 18 inches.

Route 66 became the symbol of freedom and opportunity. It began as a dirt trail that turned into the Main Street of America. The route had thousands of people traveling from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California. Even after it was decommissioned, Route 66 will forever be a historic highway in America.

About eighty years ago, engineers were able to build a bridge on time and within budget with no problem; today, most of the projects take extra time and money to finish. What exactly happened between now and eighty years ago that caused such a drastic shift? It is clearly not the engineers nor the technology; in fact, those have only improved over time. Today, engineers are faced with much more than designing and building the infrastructure, as they were before. They compete with politicians for funds, fight for the safety of workers, and protect our environment by adhering to the numerous laws and acts set forth by the government. In the future, we can only expect more costs, longer time periods for projects, and an increase in costs and

The bridge we have created is ethical in the sense that it has a dependable purpose relative to its location, and its uses. By implementing a floating bridge, in a non-linear terrain in the city of Champong Chnnang it allows for effective, and efficient commute between two villages. This idea allows for the saving of time and money, by not implementing a less efficient method of transportation and trade between the two villages. THIS ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH, LET EDWARD ADD SHIT TO THIS TOO.