The trip from Florida to Arizona is mostly unremarkable but today we traveled over a unique structure in Louisiana that's worth noting. The Atchafalaya Basin Bridge is a pair of parallel bridges between Baton Rouge and Lafayette that carries I10 over the Atchafalaya Basin. At 18 miles long, it is the third longest bridge in the US.
It was opened in 1973, and it took 2 years to build. I'm amazed at the construction process:
"They drove concrete pilings up to 148 feet long through 95 feet of swamp muck into a sand base. Engineers dredged a 125-foot-wide construction canal for barge access and used a, “production line,” method, placing precast concrete deck slabs onto pile caps to complete 350 feet of road daily. "
Pretty cool.
Traffic was insane in FL and ultra insane in Houston! Onward to Arizona!
