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Thứ Sáu, 30 tháng 8, 2013

Flying On The New Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge

By Maritza White


If you feel the brand new Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge is impressive in the ground, hold back until someone flies about this. The dual-rib concrete arch structure may be the biggest available within the U.S., and makes aerial tours towards the area a "must-do" for Vegas vacationers. The state title from the $114 million bypass may be the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, and it is massively huge. Here are a few quick details:

1. The arch span is 1.060 ft lengthy

2. The bridge is 1,900 feet extended

3. The bridge deck/pavement is 900 feet inside the Colorado River

Situated 1,500 foot south of Hoover Dam, the bridge spans Black Canyon and may serve as the connecting up final results from the Nevada and Arizona approach roads. The bypass features a pavement round the Nevada side where sights of Hoover Dam are ideal. Other customer amenities add a car park, trail, and interpretive plaza.

The Hoover Dam Bypass was created to increase driver safety, safeguard the dam, and experience again traffic jam. The first two-lane was steep and twisting and included potential hazards to vacationers and the dam itself. The street seemed to be overcome with traffic: As much as 15,000 trucks and cars entered the dam every day. Individual's automobiles are now using the bridge and the top Hoover Dam is just available to people on the streets.

Vegas Hoover Dam tours would be the most enjoyable method to go through the full-scale from the bridge. Here is a quick list of the largest outings:

1. Helicopter plane tickets. On the way, you'll fly over Lake Mead, the biggest reservoir within the U.S., after which enter Black Canyon, where you'll hover within the bridge and the dam. Plane tickets make use of the EcoStar 130, a luxurious helicopter that has stadium-style seating, wraparound wind shields, and Fenestron quiet-ride rotor technology. Includes hotel get and fall off. Total tour time is all about three hrs. Note: Helis fly in a lower altitude than planes.

2. Plane. This tour follows exactly the same route because the helicopter tour but continues onto Grand Canyon West, home within the Grand Canyon Skywalk. The return provides you with another opportunity to search for the bridge. Many travel plans make use of the fixed-wing Vistaliner aircraft (over-sized home windows, recorded tour narration, climate-controlled cabin). Includes free hotel taxi. Total tour time is 5.5 several hrs.

3. Bus tour with helicopter ride. Includes Private room Discovery Tour within the dam's interior, furthermore to convenience visitor's center, exhibit areas, movie room, observation deck, and generator room. Transfer with an EcoStar 130 helicopter for stellar sights within the bridge along with the dam. Includes hotel get or disappear. Total tour time 3.5 several hrs.

Summary

The brand new Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge, a.k.a the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, is really a sight to behold. Began in 2005 and carried out October 2010, the dwelling has already been being revered among this century's lite engineering projects. Epic in scale, the bridge is better experienced in the air.




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