Signature Bridge, (no not that one the other one). I wish this image really could stand alone, but it requires some backstory.
About thirty years ago plans were laid to replace the Pearl Harbor Bridge over the Quinnipiac River at the north end of New Haven Harbor. A great deal of money was expended to secure the plans for a very nice signature suspension bridge, as a gateway to the New Haven. Unfortunately the bridge is only really visible from one approach, but still it would be a pretty good view.
Over the next thirty years there was much dithering while debate proceeded in a desultory fashion over getting enough funding to replace the original bridge, a nondescript ribbon of highway not much different than a typical on ramp to a section of raised highway.
In the meantime the Tomlinson Bridge, a low draw bridge over the Quinnipiac was replace with an lift bridge the one you can see in the foreground of this image. So the State of Connecticut has spent a great deal of money on a signature bridge that pretty much fails to because it cannot be seen from the one approach where it would be visible.
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