Ibaraki, Japan's Bridges: Utility Bridge across the Nakagawa

June 2011 (36.416 Degrees, 140.434 Degrees) Nakagawa Utility Bridge

Continuing northeast we arrived at the Naga River and a pretty utility bridge. I like the tower legs that seem ideally suited to carry the triangular cross-section of the superstructure. Imagine building a separate cable-stayed bridge to carry a waterline when there are two nearby highway bridges that could carry it for free. 


I'm fond of playing SimCity on my computer where I always have to be careful not to spend all my money on infrastructure. My impression is that Japan is willing to spend a lot more money on infrastructure than we do in the United States. 

Ibaraki, Japan's Bridges: Utility Bridge across the Nakagawa by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.