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Originally Posted by Duffstuff129
Cool bridge, but the giant block of concrete in the middle of the span kinda takes away from its quality.
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As someone who drove across the bridge about 30 minutes before a section of it collapsed in 1989, I focus my mind on that "chunk of concrete" underneath me when I'm driving across it ever since and it's very reassuring.
Other than "self-anchored" ones (like the new eastern span), suspension bridges need an anchorage for the cable on either end. The Bay Bridge western span is really 2 suspension bridges end to end, each with the cable anchored on land at one end and in that "chunk of concrete" on the other.