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Search Encyclopedia.com Rio de Janeiro -> History According to tradition, the Rio de Janeiro area was visited in Jan., 1502, by Portuguese explorers who believed Guanabara Bay to be the mouth of a river; it was therefore named Rio de Janeiro. bridge -> Early Bridges In ancient times and among primitive peoples a log was thrown across a stream, or two vines or woven fibrous ropes (the upper for a handhold and the lower for a footwalk) were thrown across, to serve as a bridge. Rio de Janeiro -> Points of Interest Examples of Rio's famous modern architecture are the ministry of education, the Brazilian press association headquarters, and the museum of modern art. www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Rio-Antirio+bridge

Greek Route The Rio-Antirio bridge will be opened to circulation in December 2004, according to the schedule but the inauguration will in fact take place in August when it will be crossed by the Olympic flame. In 1995 the daily average between Rio and Antirio was 7,000 vehicles per day, which is now foreseen to increase to 10,000.  The bridge is at a junction for firstly, the highway linking Patras – Athens – Thessaloniki – Evzones, the country’s three principal towns, a part of the European road network, and secondly the western axis Kalamata – Patras – Igoumenitsa (the Ionia Road). www.athens2004.com /en/TorchRelayGreekRoute/torch?oid=920af5184ac0bf00VgnVCMServer8d7f673eRCRD

Greek bridge survives quake The institute of earth sciences said the epicentre of the quake was 135 kilometres from Athens, near the Rio-Antirio strait, where the last section of roadway of the 2 252-metre bridge was due to be put in place on Monday. Earthquakes frequently hit Greece and the bridge, one of the largest of its kind anywhere in the world, is designed to withstand tremors exceeding 7.0 on the Richter scale. Staff of the French construction firm Vinci are due to carry the Olympic flame across the bridge on August 8, five days before the start of the Games. www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1531692,00.html

Meaning of Rio-Antirio bridge - Definition of Rio-Antirio bridge - Dictionary of Meaning - www.mauspfeil.net The bridge parts are connected to the pylons using Image:dsc06226_rio_antirio_bridge_monniaux.jpg.html">Image:dsc06226_rio_antirio_bridge_monniaux.jpg s and s and thumb350pxrightThe piers of the Rio-Antirio bridge can slide on their gravel beds to accommodate tectonic movement. The recently opened bridge will dramatically improve access to and from the Peloponnese, which could previously be reached only by ferry or via the Image:dsc06226_rio_antirio_bridge_monniaux.jpgthumb350pxrightThe piers of the Rio-Antirio bridge can slide on their gravel beds to accommodate tectonic movement. The total cost of the bridge was about € 630,000,000, mostly funded by the Image:dsc06226_rio_antirio_bridge_monniaux.jpgthumb350pxrightThe piers of the Rio-Antirio bridge can slide on their gravel beds to accommodate tectonic movement. www.mauspfeil.net /Rio-Antirio_bridge.html

Rio, Greece - Enpsychlopedia Rio Beach includes Camping Rio Beach is its campground founded west of the centre. Rio or Rion, Latin: Rhion or Rhium (Greek: Modern: Ρίο Rio, Ancient: Ρίον Rion) is a suburban town north of Patras, Greece. Oil trucks are not allowed on the bridge and ferries are rarely in service even when the bridge is closed. www.grohol.com /wiki/Rio,_Greece

Antirio - Iridis Encyclopedia A valley is located north of Antirio and some farms are in the southern half of that mountain especially where the boundary with Nafpaktos are located. The Port of Antirio where ferry services began in the 1960s carrying vehicles from the Peloponnese to the Mainland Greece. Distance from the Peloponnese is 2.4 km from mainland Greece and Rio is WNW, other distances from the Peloponnese are Patras about 10 km ENE, about 209 km W of Athens and NW of Aigio, WSW of Amfissa, SW of Nafpaktos, E of Messolonghi and SE of Agrinio. www.iridis.com /Antirio

Cognitive Overload : But Can Still Read & Write. The newly constructed Rio-Antirio bridge, some 210 kilometers west of Athens, is illuminated during inauguration ceremony, August 7, 2004. The 2,883 meter long multi-cable-stayed bridge links southern Peloponesse peninsula to central Greece.The bridge will radically reduce crossing times from 45 minutes by boat to just five minutes and is expected to boost communication and trade in western Greece. cognitiveoverload.blogspot.com /2004/08/newly-constructed-rio-antirio-bridge.html

ekathimerini.com Rio-Antirio bridge links with Games Two of the biggest undertakings of modern Greece, the Athens 2004 Olympics and the Rio-Antirio bridge, came together yesterday as the Olympic Flame was carried over the bridge linking the Peloponnese with Western Greece, on its way to Athens. Fireworks erupt over the Rio-Antirio bridge on Saturday night, during a grand celebration of the bridge’s impending inauguration. The bridge was built by Gefyra SA, a consortium led by French-based Vinci and which includes the Greek companies Hellenic Technodomiki-TEV, J&P-Avax, Athena, Proodeftiki and Pantechniki. ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100008_09/08/2004_45797

The Rio-Anterio Bridge, Patras, Greece The total 2,883 metres of the four-span Rio-Antirio bridge connecting Rio at Patras with Antirio on the Greek mainland. The photograph was taken from the forward lounge of the Anek Lines Hellenic Spirit - sister ship the Olympic Spirit, just before she turned right into the harbour at Patras. www.cretanvista.com /CVNARABridge.htm

THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE RIO-ANTIRIO BRIDGE IS COMPLETED The Rio-Antirio Bridge is 2,252 meters long and 28 meters wide. The construction of the Rio-Antirio Bridge in southern Greece was completed today. The bridge will be given to commuters by the end of August but on August 8 it will be open just for the Olympic Flame events. www.mpa.gr /article.html?doc_id=457354

Macedonian Press Agency: News in English, 04-08-12 The Rio-Antirio Bridge linking the Peloponnese with the Greek mainland (Sterea Ellada and Epirus) will be given to traffic at 6 pm this afternoon. According to predictions, the bridge, named after Harilaos Trikoupis, who was the Prime Minister of Greece over a century ago, will be used on a daily basis by an estimated 10,000 vehicles, while on peak days the vehicles that will cross the bridge are expected to be about 25,000. Minister of Environment, Land Planning and Public Works Giorgos Souflias, who inaugurated the bridge, thanked all those who participated in its construction both at political and operational level and stressed that the bridge displays the capabilities of the new Greece. www.hri.org /news/greek/mpab/2004/04-08-12.mpab.html

Encyclopedia: Greece Lefkada, or Lefkas (Greek: Modern: Λευκάδα, Ancient/Katharevousa: -as) is an Greek island in the Ionian Sea, connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Greece

InternationalReports.net : Greece 2005 Road access northwards has also been dramatically improved by the opening of the spectacular Rio-Antirio Bridge, which features the world’s longest cable-stayed suspended deck at an impressive 2,256 meters. The new road, whose 1650 bridges and 50 kilometers of tunnels will cost more than $5 billion, is bringing them - among countless other charms - within easier reach of businesses and visitors. The $900 million bridge, in Western Greece, spans the gulf of Corinth, linking the Peloponnese - home to ancient Olympia - with central Greece - home to sites like Delphi. www.internationalreports.net /europe/greece/2005/rewards.html

news.ert.gr - Society - Rio-Antirrio Bridge Under the Microscope In closing, as far as the department of the general fire protection of the bridge is concerned, it is reminded that ND MP, Petros Mandouvalos, had filed a denunciative report for incompleteness to the Supreme Court and the case has been forwarded to the Prosecutor of Patra, where Mr Mandouvalos has been called to testify. The decision on when the bridge will be re-opened will be taken during the weekend and will depend on the damage repair and the completion of the necessary security checks. The first possibility is that lightning struck in the highest suspension wire of the western bridge pylon, after a thunderstorm in the area. news.ert.gr /en/newsDetails.asp?id=4846

ekathimerini.com Rio-Antirio bridge defies natural odds to bring Greece a step closer to modernity The bridge will be an integral part of the Ionian Highway, a north-southwestern road axis planned to upgrade existing infrastructure with European Union subsidies and facilitate transportation between Greece and Italy through the northwestern port of Igoumenitsa. As well as reducing the journey time from northwestern Greece to the capital, the bridge is also expected to generate local traffic across the strait, particularly to and from Patras, as well as bolster development in the regions on the northern side, which are among the country’s poorest. Prime Minister Harilaos Trikoupis in 1889 was the first to refer to the possibility of building a bridge to connect the southern Peloponnesian peninsula (16 percent of the country’s total area today but much more then) with the mainland, separated by the long and narrow Gulf of Corinth. www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_economy_35955_12/05/2004_42713

Greek ports information - Greek Travel Pages (GTP) The Rion-Antirion bridge is located at the intersection of two major roads: the Patras - Athens - Thessaloniki motorway which links the three most important cities of Greece and forms part of the European motorway network, the Kalamata - Patras - Igoumenitsa Western axis. The Rion- Antirion bridge is the longest cable-supported bridge in the world with a continuous deck of 2,250 meters. It is amusing noting that around 500,000 years B.C., the Corinth Gulf presumably was an inland sea and the Peloponnese linked to mainland by two isthmus: to the east with the Corinth isthmus cut today by its famous Canal and to the west with the Rion isthmus, which the Rion-Antirion bridge has replaced. www.gtp.gr /PortPage.asp?id=3603

Civil Engineering Magazine - October 2002 The Rion-Antirion Bridge will reduce the time that it takes to cross the gulf from 45 minutes to 5 minutes and will not be affected by weather. Deep pile foundations were used under the pier closest to the Antirion side, where a layer of gravel raised concerns over possible liquefaction in the event of a strong earthquake. Although the bridge must be designed to withstand the impact from a 160,000 Mg tanker sailing at 8.2 m/s, as well as high winds, it was the seismic conditions that dictated the design. www.pubs.asce.org /ceonline/ceonline02/1002feat.html

The Rion-Antirion bridge: Now a Fixed Link - mediainfo2004.gr As  ekathimerini.com reports,  the last section of the Rio-Antirio bridge was lowered into place on Monday (25/5/2004). The Rion-Antirion bridge crosses the Corinth strait near the city of Patras, connecting Peloponnese with mainland Greece. In honour of the man who envisioned the bridge spanning the 3km-wide Corinth Gulf, it is named after statesman  Harilaos Trikoupis, born in Messolongi, an historic town on the north coast of the Corinth Gulf strait, who was Prime Minister of Greece more than one hundred years ago. www.mediainfo2004.gr /cgibin/hweb?-A=1053&-V=analysis&-w=

Athens News The Rio-Antirrio bridge looking north, showing the collapsed cable In the bridge's case, most of the emphasis was on earthquake protection, and this sort of thing may have slipped by. Two of the bridge's four lanes will remain closed for traffic over a one-kilometre section until work to repair the severed cable is complete, said Gefyra SA spokesman Yiannis Freris. www.athensnews.gr /athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=13116&t=01&m=A03&aa=1

TrekEarth Rio-Antirio Bridge Photo This is the bridge that will connect Rio and Antirio and it will be ready this insdide 2004. It will have 2.500m length and it will be the biggest bridge in the world of this kind. You must be logged in to start a discussion. www.trekearth.com /gallery/photo38057.htm

Patras: : Orientation : Arriving by Car Frommers.com Keep an eye out for work on the ambitious new Rio-AntiRio bridge, scheduled to be up by the 2004 Olympics. If you're heading from Patras across the Gulf of Corinth into Central Greece, you'll take the Rio-AntiRio car ferry, which runs twice an hour from early morning until about 11pm. www.frommers.com /destinations/patras/1640030150.html

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New Cooper River Bridge - Engineering and Details of Cable-Stayed Bridges Here is the view of the bridge at 7am (June 27, 2004) (the time of interesting sun light and least risk of life for a man on a bike on the Cooper River Bridge). The new Cooper River Bridge uses an anchorage system within the tower (see building the cable bundle) and so each cable you see right now is wholly independent of the opposing cable. When biking back across the bridge I notices a stack of what appear to be concrete blocks on the east platform resting on the west pylon. monitor.admin.musc.edu /~cfs/bridge/details.html

Earthquake shakes western Greece, near major bridge project The Rio-Antirio bridge, designed to withstand much stronger earthquakes, is scheduled to be finished by the end of 2004. No casualties or damage were reported after the tremor struck at 0935 GMT, neither in the nearby city of Patras nor at the site where the 2.2 kilometer Rio-Antirio bridge, one of the world's largest suspension bridges, is currently under construction. Earthquake shakes western Greece, near major bridge project quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/bo/Qgreece-quake.RBB4_DS9.html

fuckfrance.com - The world's longest bridge opens in Greece (750922) - Read article: The last section of the Rio-Antirio bridge was lowered into place yesterday, linking the western mainland of Greece with the Peloponnese peninsula and completing a major project which is hoped to spur development in western Greece. The bridge is expected to be open to traffic by early September, as road-surfacing work, lighting, electrical and mechanical equipment and security systems have yet to be completed, as well as the access road linking the bridge to the Patras-Corinth highway. The bridge was to to have been completed in November, but authorities pressed for it to be ready before the Olympics, which begin Friday, in order to present it as a symbol of a modern Greece. www.fuckfrance.com /read.html?postid=750922&replies=42&page=1

Marine-Marketing Sigma Coatings will be the official supplier of the 2,869 m long Rio-Antirio bridge which will connect the western mainland of Greece with Pelopponnese in 2004. While the first 3 coats will be applied at the Cleveland Bridge Factory where the deck will be constructed the company's Greek partner C. Saratopoulos will apply the touch-up and finish coats in Greece. In addition, Sigma Greece secured two bridge towers and the pier heads of the internal platform (18,000 sqm) and the underwater pipelines (15,000 sqm). www.marine-marketing.gr /newsclip.php?file=200226.txt

SMIT HEAVY LIFT EUROPE SHLE is curently involved in the construction of the Bridge joining RIO and ANTIRION (The north part of Peloponesse with the south part of Mainland Greece). SMIT - Taklift-7 in Rio Antirio bridge Aug 2003 Taklift 7 lifting prefab bridge road site Rio Sep 2003 www.cotzias.gr /smit-rio.htm

Nicos M. Christodoulakis Deputy Minister of Finance I am referring to projects such as the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport, the Athens Metro, the Rio-Antirio Bridge, and the East-West (EGNATIA) and North-South (PATHE) motor ways. The acceleration in the absorption of structural funds from the European Union and the financing of large infrastructure projects have already created - and will continue to create - a favorable environment for business activity. These projects in addition to others, smaller ones, will increase the productivity of capital and therefore the benefits of potential investors. www.haba.org /greekeco.html

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