Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Kachidoki Bridge across the Sumida River (6)

June 2011 (35.662 Degrees, 139.775 Degrees) Kachidoki Bridge

I remembered that I had a photo of the underside of the Kachidoki Bridge from a boat ride I took last year. Anyway, I realized that the tie on through arch bridges is always well below the C.G. of the arch rib since traffic has to get under the portal frame. Also, the tie seems much thinner than the arch rib in yesterday's photo. The walkway is supported by cantilevered members that are on the other side of the tie from the floor beams.

Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Kachidoki Bridge across the Sumida River (6) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.