On Broadway Soaring skyscrapers and sweeping bridges have long provided the most visually striking designs for the city, but nothing inspires urban visionaries so dependably as the conundrum of rapid transit: namely, how to get millions of people from one place to another quickly.
Together, the three are sturdy, workhorse bridges, not terribly charismatic — the Goethals and Outerbridge are cantilever bridges, which are boxier-looking than swooping, sweeping suspension bridges.
The army has been drafted in to help evacuate people from their homes and rescue those stranded after the river Eden burst its banks at Appleby-in-Westmorland, sweeping away bridges and sinking some properties under a metre of water.
"We have the political, human and moral obligation to help rebuild what has been destroyed". Several rivers reached record levels, sweeping away bridges, roads, hospitals and schools.
It was a rural area, used mainly for cattle grazing, cut off from downtown by the mercurial rio, which could swell from a trickle to a raging torrent terrifyingly quickly, sweeping wooden bridges and trestles away and out to sea.
As we crossed over the sweeping white Crescent City Connection bridge, the creepy stillness of New Orleans receded, and it was striking to see the bustling activity at Bollinger's Destrehan Avenue shipyard.
The rain of shot sweeping across the bridge toppled the Tories like tenpins.
