Everyone wants the government to build the Golden Gate Bridge in their town, but what they are willing to pay will only buy the Pulaski Skyway.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 4:06 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > https://pdml.updog.co/webster26/PESO%20--%20signaturebridge.html > > Equipment: Pentax K5II w/smc Pentax F 70-210mm f4.0~5.6. > > As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. > > -- > America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. > America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. > - P.J. O'Rourke > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
