1. A section of the elevated highway collapsed. 2. As in so many American cities, the elevated highway overnight changed the look and feel of Miami. 3. As we nosed under an elevated highway, we came face to face with a modern-looking fortress of red brick and glass. 4. Barak also thinks the Palestinian territories should be connected by a complex series of bypass roads, with an elevated highway linking the West Bank and Gaza. 5. A tunnel would be far more durable than the elevated highway, and would eliminate the nightmarish traffic that reconstruction would inflict on western Brooklyn. 6. But the collapse of a relatively new elevated highway and other modern structures embarrassed Japanese engineers and surprised some Americans. 7. Cars and trucks plunge from elevated highways. 8. Elevated highways, train viaducts, airplane and balloon corridors are layered above the streets to serve the city as its buildings increased in height. 9. In much of the elevated highway, which was heavily damaged Tuesday in the earthquake here, the roadbed rests on horizontal steel girders. 10. In the past year alone, Shanghai has opened a new Stock Exchange, completed hundreds of office buildings and finished a complex of elevated highway. |