Sentence examples for historic bridge from inspiring English sources

Department of Transportation officials say that with proper attention this historic bridge can last indefinitely.

The deterioration of the historic bridge and water tower, which finally had to be barricaded shut, has been a tragedy.

"We don't consider Easton to be an historic bridge anymore," said Gordon Barton, an engineer in the D.O.T.'s bridge design division.

But drivers, historians, planners and environmentalists have long cherished the Merritt, which is notable for the intricate detailing on its historic bridge overpasses.

On Tuesday, part of the historic bridge, c.1700, in the centre of Tadcaster, north Yorkshire, collapsed into the river Wharfe, and Elland Bridge, between Huddersfield and Halifax in west Yorkshire, was also closed after the carriageway crumbled.

Those were easy, Ms. Van Etten said, compared with the years she has spent trying to persuade local government officials here to preserve a little historic bridge on her street.

But his handling of the uprisings also demonstrates the gap between the two poles of his political persona: his sense of himself as a historic bridge-builder who could redeem America's image abroad, and his more cautious adherence to long-term American interests in security and cheap oil.

"However, if all the historic bridges had locks we would have a problem with the maintenance".

The dangers are tempered by the rewards, like the views of towering skylines and historic bridges, seeming 20 stories taller from the watercraft's plastic perch.

But with its historic bridges, canoeing club, low-slung buildings and growing selection of restaurants (Ethiopian, anyone?), Gowanus is laid-back and friendly.

Two historic bridges and nearly a mile of vegetation will be destroyed to make room for the construction, the groups charged.