Building the Ravenel Bridge


After all the photos I took, I've tried to arrange them in some order based on various topics I found interesting.

And a reminder from T.S. Eliot (East Coker from the Four Quartets) 

Old men ought to be explorers
Here and there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
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January 28, 2005:Getting there: the West Ramp and Approach

West Ramp Gap

The next to last gap is waiting for the next pair of girders being assembled (see below)

Here (left) the final resting place of the two girders being attached with the cross members (right)

From the Meeting Street approach, this is how the East Bay ramp looks from above

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C. Frank Starmer

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