The Bourne Bridge

Following on from my last couple of posts and my visit to the Buzzards Bay recreation area, as i have said I love seeing bridges and was lucky on this walk to see two of them the Cape Canal Railway bridge I shared yesterday and the Bourne bridge which I share today

here it is in the distance as I am walking towards it, the bridge I shared yesterday is behind me

and no those are not ghosts the long exposure I needed to take in the early morning light make the ghostly like figures

A little bit about the bridge
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The Bourne Bridge in Bourne, Massachusetts, carries Route 28 across the Cape Cod Canal, connecting Cape Cod with the rest of Massachusetts. It won the American Institute of Steel Construction's Class "A" Award of Merit as the "Most Beautiful Steel Bridge" in 1934.

The bridge and its sibling the Sagamore Bridge were constructed beginning in 1933 by the Public Works Administration for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which operates both the bridges and the canal. Each bridge carries four lanes of traffic over a 616-foot (188 m) main span, with a 135-foot (41 m) ship clearance. Construction ended in early 1935 and the bridge opened on June 22, 1935. The approaches to the main span of the Bourne Bridge are considerably longer than those of the Sagamore Bridge due to the topography of the land. The bridge replaced an earlier 1911 bascule bridge (drawbridge), the Bourne Highway Bridge, of which the original approaches are still accessible. The current structure was built to accommodate the widening of the canal.

here I am a bit closer tot he bridge and some warm colors of sunrise coming out

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the morning colors were quickly changing

OK this is not the bridge but a few properties I passed walking along, must be such a nice spot so close to the canal I could happily live there

and a last shot to finish off the post

And that’s all folks

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