Japan's Bridges: Utility Bridge across a Branch of the Kitakami, Miyaki Prefecture

June 2011 (38.556 Degrees, 141.415 Degrees) Kitakami Utility Bridge

A utility bridge across a branch of the Kitakami River. Most of these utility bridges are identical, a three chord truss with the utility as the bottom chord supported on single column/pile extension bents. I just like the bright green color of these bridges.

Japan must have different relationships between public and private utility companies. In California we put utility openings in our bridges and they get filled with other people's pipes and cables. I guess in Japan they prefer to maintain their own lifelines without having to ask someone for access.

Japan's Bridges: Utility Bridge across a Branch of the Kitakami, Miyaki Prefecture by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.