Niigata, Japan's Bridges: Rinko Yasaka Bridge across the U River (4)

August 2007 (37.3675 Degrees, 138.5433 Degrees) Rinko Yasaka Bridge

A combination of lateral spreading of the embankment and movement of the abutment backwall caused quite a bit of bridge damage without closing the bridge for very long.

As long as the abutment has big seats, the superstructure is well put together, and everything is sitting on deep piles the bridge can handle a lot banging without being closed for longer than it takes to put some asphalt on the approaches.

Niigata, Japan's Bridges: Rinko Yasaka Bridge across the U River (4) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.