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Light Rail on a Floating Bridge: A Bridge Too Far?
Seattle is doing something that’s never been done before: running light rail across a floating bridge. Here’s the story behind the engineering, the challenges, and what it means for the future.
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I’m a bridge engineer who’s spent nearly two decades designing, inspecting and exploring bridges. The Bridge Guy is where I share the engineering, history, people and places behind the world’s bridges.