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DonPanic

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From: Paris in Astrolia

Registered: 2004-02-13

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Re: The Millau Highway Bridge

LO

This bridge is now the highest in the world, with thin pillars up to 1122 feet high, it's very elegant too

SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

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Re: The Millau Highway Bridge

Is this in France? It is quite beautiful this scenery of the valley and all the green vegitation very peaceful.

Looks like if you put windmills on each you could get lots of free power from this location.

Edit just found news article France opens world's tallest bridge Chirac praises 1.6-mile roadway as a 'prodigy of art'

The Millau bridge will enable motorists to take a drive through the sky — 891 feet above the Tarn River valley for 1.6-mile stretch through France’s Massif Central mountains.

The $523 million bridge was commissioned to open a new north-south link between Paris and the Mediterranean and is expected to relieve bottlenecks caused by trucks and tourists headed to the Riviera.

Toll fees for motorists will vary from $6.50 in winter and $8.62 in summer. Trucks will have to pay $32.24 year-round.

And we can not find the money for the CEV

SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

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Re: The Millau Highway Bridge

France's soaring Millau bridge seen from orbit by Proba is a micro-satellite developed by ESA's General Support Technology Programme.