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a bridge that only exists so the road can ignore you completely.
means A bridge or elevated stretch of road that carries one route over another, letting traffic cross without intersecting.
from A plain compound of "over" plus "pass," built from the same Old English "ofer" (above) and the verb "pass" (from Latin "passus," a step, by way of French). It's a relatively modern road-engineering term, born alongside the automobile age when planners needed a word for the road that goes "over" so another can "pass" beneath — the mirror twin of the underpass.
- first one
- Bronx's Eastern Parkway pioneered grade separation in the 1860s.
- deadly clearance
- Boston's Storrow Drive 'Storrows' trucks every single year.
- infrastructure art
- Some Texas interchanges stack five levels skyward.
- hidden homes
- Their undersides shelter people cities pretend not to see.
highway 35w bridge collapse — i-35w mississippi river bridge in minneapolis collapsed in 2007, killing 13 people
viaduct de millau — cable-stayed bridge in southern france, 2004, world's tallest bridge at 343 meters
bay bridge retrofit — san francisco-oakland bay bridge retrofit began 1997 after 1989 earthquake damage