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Old 07-21-2007, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by DeltAlum View Post
Funny, when I was living in Manhattan, looking at the big steel sheets on the streets, but especially taking cabs out to La Guardia and going under bridges, viaducts, etc., I wondered about the age of the infrastructure and how long it would last.
The very fact that the bridges over the East River were OVER BUILT saved them during the hard/lean budget years.

Unlike the Tappen Zee which was UNDER BUILT

There have been shows of the underground of NYC on h History and/or Discovery that were eye openers.

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