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The Orb Aqueduct (French: Pont-canal de l'Orb, Pont-canal de Béziers) is a bridge which carries the Canal du Midi over the Orb in the city of Béziers in Languedoc, France. The aqueduct is 28 metres (92 ft) wide, 12 metres (39 ft) tall and at 240 metres (790 ft) is the longest on the Canal du Midi.
The A75 is an autoroute in France.. Known also as la Méridienne, it is a developmental project with the aim of speeding up and reducing the cost of car travel from Paris southwards, and apart from the Millau Viaduct, it is entirely free for the 335 km (208 mi) between Clermont-Ferrand and Béziers.
Saint-Nazaire Cathedral: Situated in the high part of town, it occupies a picturesque site, visible from afar when approaching Béziers on the road from Narbonne. A remarkable example of middle Gothic architecture from the 14th century, the vaulted nave, 14 m (45.93 ft) wide, reaches a height of 32 m (104.99 ft).
People work to clear a house from a bridge on KY-931 near the Whitesburg Recycling Center in Letcher County, Ky., on Friday, July 29, 2022. See photos of Eastern Kentucky before and after deadly ...
Click on the photo slider below to see what the bridge looked like on June 20, 2012, and March 26, 2024: Read more: Baltimore Key Bridge collapse live updates [Yahoo News]
The speed limit on the bridge was reduced from 130 kilometres per hour (81 mph) to 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph) because tourists were slowing down to take photos. Soon after the bridge opened to traffic, cars were stopping on the hard shoulder so that travelers could view the landscape and the bridge. [citation needed]
Interstate 510 ends just north of the bridge. Both ends of the bridge are in Orleans Parish, but Chalmette is a short distance south of the bridge, which provides the most important road link for St. Bernard Parish, and is one of only four routes into the parish, the others being Judge Perez Drive, the Chalmette Ferry, and the St. Bernard Highway.
A large container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which spans 1.6 miles across Baltimore's harbor, early Tuesday morning. The pillar couldn't stand up against the crash, sending that ...