Bridge to nowhere

Soda bridge or So -da- bridge is a colloquial name for a bridge that 's just as easy, so currently does not fulfill any function, and lack of access roads is not usable. The reason for the existence of such buildings is usually the lack of funding of the project. Furthermore, with inadequate planning, begun for reasons political prestige or for the preservation of the building right to the bridge before the financing of the remaining route (highway, railway) is secured. For architectural reasons it is necessary, before the actual track construction to begin construction of bridges as bridges may be subject to a reduction due to their weight. Difficulties may also apply if the bridge on the border of two building lots located and they will be realized simultaneously. Thus, it often happens that those on "stock" built bridges are at least over the medium term apparently useless in the landscape. If such structures in the longer term not to traffic so they are referred to as investment ruins.

History

The phenomenon of soda - bridge is not new; it already existed in ancient times. During archaeological excavations at the Roman canal foundations were found bridges whose slightly different from the ideal line location only allowed the conclusion that they were built before the construction of the actual water line.

Examples

With the increasing road construction in the 20th century, several bridges were built all over the world that have not been used later for various reasons, partly or entirely.

Germany

In Germany alone there are numerous examples of soda bridges. A prominent example is a motorway bridge on the A1 at Euskirchen, which was built for the planned A 56 in the 1970s. On 15 June 2001 the Cologne rock group BAP presented there their new album " Aff un zo " and formed the bridge on the cover from. The bridge is also known as dead bridge of Euskirchen.

2005 in particular became the Itztalbrücke in the northeast of Coburg as alleged tax waste into the discussion. The new bridge is part of the under construction high-speed line Nuremberg -Erfurt, whose completion is scheduled for 2017. The same applies to the Gera Viaduct Ichterhausen at Erfurt, which is completed in 2001.

In the Ruhr area since the late 1970s exists between the cities of Bochum and Dortmund, a plan for the "New Hellweg " north of the A40 motorway, whose construction is begun and left unfinished after a few years. Only a portion of the planned four-lane expressway, west starting at the B 235 in Castrop- Rauxel Merklinde, was built and opened to traffic. The trail ends after 1.5 kilometers east of the ramp next to a useless " soda - bridge" over the Dortmunder Straße in Castrop- Rauxel Frohlind ( Lage51.53757.3391666666667 ). The eastern bridge dam was not filled up. Thus the building design as a demonstration is visible for about 30 years, for example, for Civil Engineering students of the Universities of Bochum and Dortmund.

A former soda Bridge is the Schänzlebrücke in Konstanz. Four lanes planned as part of a highway across the Rhine to Switzerland in the 1970s and built in the 80s, it was only provided with Behelfszufahrten, used only two lanes for urban traffic. Because there was to the planning of the bridge, the option to expand the Upper Rhine and Lake Constance to Constance for navigation, the bridge is also higher than it would be for recreational boating. It was not until 2000-2006 was the reconstruction of the access roads to full use with connection to Switzerland, but on the German side only in the course of a four-lane highway.

In Saarbrücken, a bridge over the Saar, which was never used for its proper purpose exists. It is four lanes expanded and provided with street lighting and was originally the district Sankt Arnual connect with the so-called Daarler meadows, because in the 1970 years should be in the meadows an industrial area arise. Although it has no connection to the road, but it is used by pedestrians.

As an example of soda bridges of Reichsautobahnen is made to the RAB route 46 (Würzburg - Fulda). Here are some great, unfinished flyovers, for example, across the street MSP 17 Burg Sinn Gräfendorf, and several small bridges. This route to Gräfendorf, some 90% completed, has not been further built on the setting of the building in 1940 in the postwar period. One reason was new standards for the alignment, eg max. 6% slope instead of the previous allowable 8%. Another specific reason was necessary due to the closure of the inner German border had become Verkehrsanschließung of the now East Bavarian border zone area. Today's A7 therefore runs 20-30 kilometers east of the construction site of the route 46

The event has occurred that a soda - bridge was set after decades of life eventually in original construction into operation on the A66, namely the passage for the B40 on the south side of the Kinzig valley viaduct at Ahl Bad Soden- Salmuenster: construction in 1962, in operation since December 1994.

In the parking lot of the truck stop Vellern on the A2 (south side, direction Hannover) exists since September 2012, an under preservation soda Bridge by Umversetzung the oldest concrete bridge in the world.

The Soda Bridge of Ramsenthal at Bayreuth from 2009 was still continued to be built in the years 2012/13. She stood a few years senseless and futile in the landscape and has as an example of bad planning and control waste obtained through regional awareness. Since mid-October 2013, it is opened to traffic.

Switzerland

An example of a soda Bridge in Switzerland is near Hinwil, a community southeast of the city of Zurich. In the so-called Betzholz gyro, a dimensioned as a roundabout junction, the highway 52 from the Zurich Oberland highway splits off. Originally, the traffic should be guided towards the rest of the traffic model over the roundabout and through direction A 52.

The section between Uster and Hinwil has not previously been built, partly due to lack of financial resources and, secondly, because of objections from the planned lines through the Ambietzgiriet between Wetzikon and Hinwil. For this reason, stands on the northern side of the roundabout since 1990 a soda Bridge. Although the A should be 53 once extended continuously between the Brütiseller Cross and rich castle, is when the machinery for gap closure of the A 53 will ascend unclear. Also unclear is whether to then the lines will still lead on the Hinwil Soda bridge.

World

A soda - bridge from New Zealand is the Bridge to Nowhere ( bridge to nowhere ).

The Prince Willem -Alexander bridge in the Netherlands is mockingly called Brug van niks naar nergens ( Bridge of nowhere to nowhere ) because their dual carriageways border in the south on an ordinary road.

Gallery

An unfinished bridge the strategic railway embankment in the Ahr Valley

A road bridge over the railway embankment Strategic

The Itztalbrücke in Coburg was completed in 2005 and will be driven from 2017.

Soda Bridge Ramsenthal at Bayreuth