But 120 years ago, John Ruskin - who thought Monsal Dale "divine as the Vale of Tempe" - denounced the viaduct as the vandalism of fools who wanted to travel between Bakewell and Buxton in half an hour.
The waterfall, whose names translates as "waterfall of the great ravine", attracts thousands of visitors each year, most of whom admire it from the safety of the Snowdon Mountain Railway viaduct.
The Monsal viaduct - which once carried the railway line between Manchester and London - is now accepted as a thing of beauty which adds to the valley's wonder.
This was worst after a big earthquake in 1989, when part of the Bay Bridge collapsed and a nearby viaduct fell onto its lower deck, crushing 42 people to death and causing months of disruption.In this section From America's mayor to America's president?
He argues that this would make the waterfront more attractive while accommodating the 110,000 vehicles now using the viaduct each day.
Richard Cobden and a rail viaduct are unbeatable.JEREMY LEFROY, JANET LEFROYMoshi, TanzaniaKinnock and BransonSIR You are right to argue for true aviation liberalisation ("Open the skies", September 11th).
State experts have since estimated that the odds of an earthquake bringing it down are one in ten over the next decade.Concern about thousands of commuters being crushed between slabs of falling concrete has pushed the city, state and federal governments to approve a plan that would replace the viaduct with a tunnel.
On January 5th, a viaduct carrying the motorway that crosses the mountains between the capital and the airport was closed indefinitely.
The FDOT is in the process of building a $60m viaduct across part of the route, which should shave time from the journey.
Taxi drivers in Recife say traffic has eased thanks to a new viaduct linking the north and south of the city.
Overlooking Seattle's waterfront, however, is a noisy 1950s elevated highway in hideous grey concrete.The elevated highway known in Seattle simply as "the viaduct"—is also a hazard.
