With dual towers of black steel, the Lincoln Highway Bridge cuts a dark, industrial image for commuters and residents in and around Newark and Jersey City.
"It should be the jewel of New York City, but instead it's turned into eight shades of lavender," said Peter F. Vallone Jr., a city councilman through whose district in Astoria the railroad bridge cuts before it spans a section of the East River known as Hell Gate, across to Wards Island and Randalls Island, linking Queens to the Bronx.
The station also showed scenes of people stranded on a bridge, cut off by water on both sides near the mouth of the Abukuma River in Miyagi Prefecture.
And the two Salem reactors in New Jersey just south of the Delaware Memorial Bridge cut their power output to reduce their need for cooling water because debris was entering the cooling water channels.
The roads taking traffic on and off the Tay Bridge cut a gash between the two.
It is a journey of just 101 miles, but the spectacular route teeters along viaducts, crosses more than 60 bridges, cuts through steep-sided jungle valleys and rockets down the world's third-steepest railway incline.
He wired to Washington that "armed citizens fire into the trains, cut the telegraph wires, attack the guards of bridges, cut off and destroy my couriers, while guerrilla bands of cavalry attack whenever there is the slightest chance of success".
The road snaked through the valley, crossing the Golo River over a series of beautiful arched bridges cut from the same reddish stone that defined the area's distinctive hue.
Army trucks were stationed at a hospital in Lancaster to act as ambulances after flooding at an electricity sub-station and the closure of all the road bridges cut the city off from the power grid.
It and its planners have little room for any urban contingency, places where railway bridges cut low over streets, on their own business, at angles that make no sense from below, forming strange obliques and acutes with the houses they meet.
Running a typical third-party campaign, the Liberal Party is trying to flank to the left of the NDP by arguing for big, broad-based governing that would lavish money onto Canada's highways and bridges, cut cheques to its families and seniors, and commit cash for the country's under-resourced First Nations.
