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	Queensboro Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is also called the "59th Street Bridge", a name popularized by the Simon and Garfunkel song "The 59th St. Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)", because it enters Manhattan at that street.
		Serious proposals for a bridge linking Manhattan to Long Island City were first made as early as 1838 and attempts to finance such a bridge were made by a private company beginning in 1867.
		Construction soon began but it would take until 1909 for the bridge to be completed due to delays from the collapse of an incomplete span during a windstorm and from labor unrest (including an attempt to dynamite one span).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queensboro_Bridge (537 words)

	Abandoned Stations : Queensborough Bridge Railway terminal
		The Queensborough Bridge is a cantilever bridge designed by Gustav Lindenthal in 1903 for the City of New York.
		At the Manhattan bridge terminal was an underground loop terminal of five tracks located on the east side of 2 Ave between 59 St and 60 St. The corresponding Queens terminal was a loop of three tracks on the street surface in the bridge plaza on the west side of Jackson Ave (Northern Boulevard).
		The first streetcar service on the bridge was a shuttle of trolley cars started in October 1909 from the underground terminal to the street plaza at the Queens end of the bridge, probably operated by the New York and Queens County Railway.
	www.columbia.edu /~brennan/abandoned/qborobr.html (1285 words)

	TSB Reports - Marine 2000 - M00W0005
		In the past, when passing under the bridges, the skipper's main concern was the height of the raised spuds; with the spuds vertical, the skipper could use the marks (in feet) imprinted on them to assess the height of other vertical protrusions.
		At 1345, the tug was passing under the Knight Street Bridge; the skipper had the con while the deck-hand was in the wheel-house with his back to the tow.
		The boom of the crane struck the span of the Knight Street Bridge because the air draft of the tow was not ascertained prior to commencing the tow.
	www.bst.gc.ca /en/reports/marine/2000/m00w0005/m00w0005.asp?print_view=1 (3629 words)

	Bridges of Greater Vancouver
		Queensborough Bridge Lulu Island, low-level road/rail 1891-1913/1913- The North Arm of the Fraser River was bridged here by the City of New Westminster with a timber highway trestle, connecting the two parts of the city.
		Queensborough Bridge high-level highway 1960- The City of New Westminster built this $4-million bridge over the North Arm of the Fraser for access to its suburb of Queensborough at the east end of Lulu Island, and to the Annacis Industrial Estate to the south.
		The old bridge could not compete with the convenience of the new; it was closed to highway traffic in 1963, and sold to the CNR for $1.
	www.discovervancouver.com /GVB/vancouver-bridges.asp (3703 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Queensboro (59th Street) Bridge
		In 1996 the pedestrian walkway was on the South side of the Queensborough Bridge.
		There were 235 applications from people who sought to be the first to jump from the bridge — 168 from professional bridge jumpers, 34 from inventors with devices to test, 9 would-be suicides and 24 unemployed men who thought the gesture would improve their chances of work.
		The bridge design provided for two decks, the upper with two outside footwalks and an interior double rail line to connect with the Second Avenue elevated, the lower with a vehicle roadway and four trolley tracks, including a special shuttle line that, in Manhattan, made a loop under the bridge's plaza on Second Avenue.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=2877 (1570 words)

	BridgeUpdates
		Bridges are found in art for many reasons, often reflecting the ideas of an age.
		In spite of strangeness of the picture, the bridge and the other objects are given a realistic treatment that actually contributes to the effect.
		These bridges were truly a part of huge works of art, which were sometimes designed to include aspects of the distant landscape (shakkei).
	www.brantacan.co.uk /bridgeupdates.htm (1952 words)

	WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE
		The main cables of the Williamsburg bridge were spun by John A. Roebling Sons inc. Same company spun cables for the magnificent Manhattan Bridge and the great George Washington Bridge.
		Since the wires in the main cables in the Williamsburg Bridge are not galvanized the bridge engineers have had a problem in terms of protecting them from corrosion.
		Built to alleviate traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and to provide a link between Manhattan and the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, the 1,600 foot Williamsburg Bridge was the world's longest suspension bridge until the 1920s.
	bridgepros.com /projects/Williamsburg_Bridge (653 words)

	IN THE CAUSE OF ARCHITECTURE
		The savage who essays a suspension bridge across a gulch in the Andes must drive down stakes or heap up stones or tie his grass-woven cable to a tree to hold it in place while his crazy structure is swinging.
		Most spectators of the Brooklyn Bridge probably fail to distinguish the anchorage, which is an integral part of the structure, from the approaches of which the purpose is simply to give access to it.
		Lindenthal, under whose administration of the Bridge Department the Queensborough Bridge was redesigned and virtually begun, though some progress had already been made in building the supporting piers, and Manhattan Bridge re-designed also, though the engineering changes of the revised design have again been discarded in the actual structure.
	www.architecturalrecord.com /inTheCause/onTheState/0408-4bridges.asp (3649 words)

	LCPC - Information sources - Civil engineering - Bridges of New-York - Queensborough Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This bridge, which joins Manhattan to Queens, was built between 1901 and 1909 by Buck, Lindenthal, Henry, and the architect Hornbostel.
		It is a steel cantilever bridge (the first one of this size in the United States) and has two levels so that ten traffic lanes can cross the river (4 on the upper level, 6 on the lower one).
		It is the " 59th Street bridge " that inspired Simon and Garfunkel in the famous song " The 59th Street Bridge Song/Feeling groovy ".
	www.lcpc.fr /en/sources/newyork/queensborough.dml (142 words)

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		Of these five, the Queensborough, Manhattan, and Triborough Bridges were all constructed within a three decade period when traffic across the East River was becoming overwhelmingly heavy -- jumping 20 folds from 4.5 million crossings in 1910 to 90 million crossings in 1936, and it continued to rise thereafter.
		Over one-third, or 36 million, were handled by the Queensborough Bridge alone, which is the only bridge within the 5-mile stretch between the Triborough and Williamsburg Bridges.
		The Queensborough Bridge poorly distributed traffic because its approach areas were inadequate to handle the capacity, and as a consequence contributed to heavy congestion that interfered with traffic of the vicinity.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~tamjo/queens/queenst.doc (3914 words)

	Queensboro Bridge (NY 25)
		"The structure of the bridge itself is an intricate mass of interlacing steelwork, seemingly incapable of architectural beauty because of the strict requirement imposed by the structural conditions in the design of compression and tension members.
		The two suspension bridges were to be linked by a cantilever bridge with a main span of 500 feet.
		Two independent consultants stated that while the bridge design was not faulty, they did raise concerns about the overuse of steel and the lack of testing of compression members.
	www.nycroads.com /crossings/queensboro (2482 words)

	Fiboro Bridges - Queensboro Bridge
		Bicycling Boom on East River Bridges, October 14, 2003
		Bridge Access Safety Crisis Continues as the DOT Fails to Fix 6 of 8 Entrances, Summer 2002
		Queensboro Bridge To Be Fenced In, and Some Fear Spread of Chain Links, New York Sun, March 3, 2004
	www.transalt.org /bridges/queensboro.html (722 words)

	cantileverc
		The top chord of many truss bridges, such as the Queensborough bridge and the Jacques Cartier bridge, is curved, though the Forth bridge and the Quebec use straight chords.
		In the case of the Forth bridge, which is narrower at the top than the bottom, (no doubt in response to the collapse of the Tay bridge) the support of the railway track is not simple.
		Many cantilever bridges have the entire lower chord aligned with the deck, which has the added advantage that the entire span has a high clearance for shipping, if need be.
	www.brantacan.co.uk /cantileverc.htm (3107 words)

	Adventures of an inquiring mind: Brookhaven Reloaded - Day 3
		Then head over to Queensborough Bridge, which is great because it is a high free, no tolls, and you get a great view of the NYC skyline.
		On top of that, Queensborough Bridge sends you directly to the heart of Manhattan (in the edge of central park).
		The bridge leads you to I278, which goes parallel to the skyline opposite of it and offers astonishing views (I nearly hit my car twice during these couple of miles) and finally leads back to I495.
	themos.blogspot.com /2005/03/brookhaven-reloaded-day-3.html (333 words)

	Nautical Weddings in New York (NY) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The bridge's three branches meet on Randall's Island, where an interchange and two toll plazas sort out traffic flowing in 12 directions and provide access to the island itself.
		A collaboration between the famed bridge engineer Gustav Lindenthal (1850-1935) and architect Henry Hornbostel, the Queensboro's massive, silver-painted trusses span the East River between 59th Street in Manhattan and Long Island City in Queens and offer spectacular views of midtown Manhattan, highlighted by the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the United Nations.
		Upon its completion in 1903, it became the longest suspension bridge in the world, supplanting a record held by the Brooklyn Bridge for the previous two decades.
	www.yachtromantica.com /Attractions/EastRiverAttractions.html (1723 words)

	The Midtown Book: Sutton Place area: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Around the same time, at the north, the arches under the Queensborough Bridge at First Avenue were redeveloped into a large supermarket and a huge and handsome restaurant, Gustavino's, and a free-standing and attractively modern Conran's store opened in the adjoining plaza.
		It was formerly Avenue A and it becomes York Avenue north of the Queensborough Bridge.
		A large playing field beneath the bridge is converted to a private enclosed tennis facility/club in the winter, which is a nice amenity for the neighborhood.
	www.thecityreview.com /sutton/suttonpl.html (2437 words)

	T2000BC opinions page: provincial government wants highways, not transit
		The bridge is concrete girder design and is being built by Delta Catalytic of Delta under a $19-million contract.
		The total length of the bridge is 475 metres with a main river span of 70 metres.
		Two new bridges will be built at Hamilton and 10 kilometres of pipe poles will be installed to support the bridges, signs and light posts.
	www.vcn.bc.ca /t2000bc/debate/opinions/more_highways_less_transit.html (1383 words)

	Chapter II: Interborough Routes and Stations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From the Queensborough Bridge Plaza two elevated railroads will be built connecting with the Steinway Tunnel Extension.
		These two lines will also be used by trains from the Second Avenue Elevated line in Manhattan going over the Queensborough Bridge as well as by trains of the New York Municipal Company passing through the Broadway and 59th Street subways in Manhattan and over the Queensborough Bridge.
		The existing bridge across the Harlem River carrying the Third Avenue Elevated tracks will be reconstructed into a four-track bridge, and the four tracks will be extended north to 144th Street in The Bronx.
	www.nycsubway.org /dual/newsubways2.html (2373 words)

	Locate Sunnyside
		The M32 bus along Madison Avenue and across the *Queensborough Bridge to Queens Boulevard to the stop of your destination.
		Triboro Bridge to Brooklyn-Queens Expressway south, Exit at Queens Boulevard - West, continue on about a 1/3 of a mile you will see a Veteran Memorial Park on your left and you are now entering the Community of Sunnyside.
		From Manhattan : Take the lower level of the *Queensborough Bridge follow the road and it snakes into Queens Boulevard, you will see CITI Bank on your right and you are now entering into Sunnyside.
	www.sunnysidechamber.org /location.html (321 words)

	Divine Mercy Parish, Vancouver: maps and directions
		Queensborough is remarkably quick and easy to get to from Vancouver and other parts of the Lower Mainland served by Skytrain: the trip from downtown Vancouver takes only a little more than half an hour.
		The 22nd Street Skytrain station in New Westminster is just across the Queensborough Bridge from Holy Spirit church.
		Be careful not to cross the bridge to Annacis Island or Surrey.
	www.divinemercy.ca /maps.html (406 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cross small bridge and follow the road to Belgrave Way approximately 500 feet from small bridge, and keep to your right for approximately 1000 feet on your right.
		Follow Boyd Ave, under the Queensborough bridge until it changes to Derwent Way, stay on Derwent Way.
		Cross small bridge and follow the road to 801 Belgrave Way approximately 500 feet from small bridge, and keep to your right for approximately 1000 feet on your right.
	www.fasttracks.net /vancouver_map.htm (267 words)

	Picture essays > Queensborough/59th Street Bridge (sorabji.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Is it the Queensborough Bridge, or the 59th Street Bridge?
		I don't know, but I walk the length of this bridge at least twice weekly, and every time I walk the walk I gain a new appreciation for some previously unseen part of this great bridge.
		Bridgewatchers of New York can only hope that photography of this great bridge is not outlawed as is the case with other bridges around town.
	www.sorabji.com /_/Queensborough_59th_Street_Bridge (103 words)

	Regular Council Agenda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		THAT the correspondence from the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition regarding pedestrian and bicycle safety on the Queensborough Bridge, be received and forwarded to the Ministry of Transportation.
		THAT the correspondence from Bruce and Maureen Mol, 316 Second Street, regarding safer cycling facilities on the Queensborough Bridge, be received and forwarded to the Ministry of Transportation.
		THAT the correspondence from the Honourable Judith Reid, Minister of Transportation, regarding pedestrian and cyclist safety on the Queensborough Bridge, be received and referred to the Director of Engineering for review and reply.
	www.city.new-westminster.bc.ca /cityhall/Leg_Info/Electronic_Packages/1997-2003/minRGarch/2003RegMin/oct20reg.htm (1498 words)

	American Bolero Dance Company, Bolero School, Gabriela Granados Director
		Walk south on 21st Street 2 blocks, towards the Queensborough Bridge, pass under it and cross Queens Plaza South to the Sunoco gas stationÕs side.
		Take the upper level of the Queensborough Bridge (59th Street Bridge) and proceed on the right fork (marked 21st Street).
		It is one of the exits of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, by Williamsburg Bridge exit.
	www.ambolero.com /classinfo.html (739 words)

	Sea Island Richmond Loop
		Start at Queensborough Bridge and head towards Sea Island along the north arm of the Fraser.
		River Rd between Queensborough and #6 curves gently while providing pleasant scenery and small parks on the river bank.
		After crossing the Moray Bridge (Sea Island Way) you'll be confronted with another complex intersection made especially difficult by continual construction but take the immediate right and it should lead to Iona Beach.
	members.shaw.ca /bcrider99/seaisland_richmond_loop.htm (670 words)

	Transportation Act -- PROVINCIAL PUBLIC UNDERTAKINGS REGULATION
		(i) the Port Mann Bridge, being the structure that spans the Fraser River and connects the Municipality of Coquitlam with the Municipality of Surrey;
		(k) the Annacis Bridge, being the structure that spans the main channel of the Fraser River in the vicinity of Annacis Island in the Municipality of Delta;
		(l) the East Channel Bridge, being the structure that spans the Annacis Channel of the Fraser River and connects the municipality of Delta with the City of New Westminster and the Municipality of Richmond;
	www.qp.gov.bc.ca /statreg/reg/T/Transportation513_2004/513_2004.htm (1680 words)

	Canon Digital Photography Forums - The Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges - 1D Mark II/16-35 f/2.8L
		I fear the bridges in Southern California (do we have any?) are not nearly as photogenic.
		I was in Dumbo at this little park between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge that I found while wandering around looking for a good vantage point.
		Both those bridges are big, but they have no character.
	photography-on-the.net /forum/printthread.php?t=31925&pp=40 (863 words)

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