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Greensboro Urban Loop Bridge Spans Over 4,200 Feet

Columns and caps tower over wetlands where a bridge will carry traffic along the western leg of the Greensboro Urban Loop near the intersection of Battleground Avenue and Drawbridge Parkway in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, July 16, 2015. The bridge spans more the 4,200 feet. Fingers of a temporary bridge (located below the columns and caps) used during construction will eventually be removed.

Greensboro Urban Loop Bridge Spans Over 4,200 Feet

Workers build a column which will be part of the foundation to support a bridge spanning more than 4,200 feet carrying traffic over wetlands along the western leg of the Greensboro Urban Loop in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, July 16, 2015.

Framed through a two columns and a cap, construction of a bridge spanning more the 4,200 feet is underway in 2015 near the intersection of Battleground Avenue and Drawbridge Parkway in Greensboro The bridge is part of the western leg of the Greensboro Urban Loop.

 

Drilled shafts (foreground, right) protrude from the ground near Drawbridge Parkway in Greensboro, N.C., where a bridge spanning more than 4,200 feet will carry traffic over wetlands along the western leg of the Greensboro Urban Loop in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, July 16, 2015.

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It will tower about 40 feet overhead.

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Columns and caps tower over wetlands where a bridge will carry traffic along the western leg of the Greensboro Urban Loop near the intersection of Battleground Avenue and Drawbridge Parkway in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, July 16, 2015. The bridge spans more the 4,200 feet. Fingers of a temporary bridge (located below the columns and caps) used during construction will eventually be removed.

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Framed through a two columns and a cap, construction of a bridge spanning more the 4,200 feet is underway in 2015 near the intersection of Battleground Avenue and Drawbridge Parkway in Greensboro The bridge is part of the western leg of the Greensboro Urban Loop.

 

Drilled shafts (foreground, right) protrude from the ground near Drawbridge Parkway in Greensboro, N.C., where a bridge spanning more than 4,200 feet will carry traffic over wetlands along the western leg of the Greensboro Urban Loop in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, July 16, 2015.

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