Give or take some signs, a bit of subtle road engineering and the odd new overpass, most of the junctions look much like they did 40 years ago.
Some are genuinely lovely – such as the Metro YHA, in Melbourne, Australia – and most hold nightly events and outings for guests (the HI-NYC has volunteer-led trips to comedy clubs and to Brooklyn's trendy Dumbo - Down under the Manhattan bridge overpass – district).
On the morning of 19 August, the first of three flat-bed trucks carrying three large 1000-litre watanksanks, each filled with explosives, detonated on an overpass outside the Finance Ministry in south-eastern Baghdad.
The gardens and playgrounds have been replaced by skips and abandoned cars, and the Presleys' old building is now overshadowed by a freeway overpass that blocks out the sunsets on the Mississippi.The Memphis Housing Authority (MHA) says that the buildings have become too difficult to maintain, and residents complain that the rooms are too small and the bathrooms lack showers.
At the intersection of the Loop and Freeway 225, two motorways in the south-east of the city, you drive over a high, tangled overpass.
After the quake, West Oakland residents opposed reconstruction of the overpass through their neighborhoods, arguing it had become fertile ground for garbage, prostitution and crack cocaine.
It seems not.The police had been responding to reports of men firing on police on a nearby highway overpass.
The king is now so influential that he need only muse aloud about, say, a new overpass to ease congestion in Bangkok, or a new system to tag stray dogs, to set off a race among politicians and bureaucrats to implement his ideas.The king is also credited with using this enormous moral authority to promote democracy and chastise Thailand's more venal and violent leaders.
In the case of a typical overpass beam bridge with one support in the middle, construction begins with the casting of concrete footings for the pier and abutments.
Generally speaking, bridges can be divided into two categories: standard overpass bridges or unique-design bridges over rivers, chasms, or estuaries.
A bomb was left on barriers on the overpass, Atilla Aydiner, the mayor for Istanbul's Bayrampasa district, said.
