Tag: River Tarn

Roadbuilding

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In bridges, there’s American old and then there’s old.  You want old? The Pont Vieux (literally “old bridge”) had been in use for 657 years when the oldest surviving roadway bridge in America, the 73-foot Frankford Avenue Bridge in Pennsylvania, was constructed in 1697. The 500-foot long Pont Vieux in Albi, in the Midi Pyrenees […]

May 13, 2013