Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Shimizu (横十間川 清水橋) Bridge across the Yoko Jikkengawa (1)

March 2012 (35.692 Degrees, 139.820 Degrees) Shimizu Bridge

The next bridge is a three span haunched steel girder crossing on multicolumn bents and seat-type abutments. This structure carries two traffic lanes and sidewalks and it looks like it was built in another era. The railing was designed to look like wood with a solid portion (to prevent falls) above the piers. The haunched girders were designed to resist the large moments and shears at the supports and a drop-in span was placed in the middle of the bridge.

Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Shimizu (横十間川 清水橋) Bridge across the Yoko Jikkengawa (1) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.