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Double Drawbridge

Friday, 10th June 2005 by Alex

Here’s a rather nice double drawbridge near the Fort Lauderdale Beach in Florida. The road itself is Sunrise Boulevard (hehe, we don’t have boulevards over here) which sounds like a fake road name if you ask me ;-)

Another Drawbridge

Thanks: Thomas Ploskina

13 Responses to 'Double Drawbridge'

  1. 1. Jeff says:

    Based on it’s located, I HIGHLY doubt it’s a fake name…it looks like you can drive east on that road in the morning and have a GREAT view of the sunrise.

    Similar to Placemark: Sunset Cliffs Blvd in San Diego / Google Earth. (a picture from Sunset Cliffs Blvd)

  2. 2. Brian says:

    WOW! I’m not that startled by the picture but I opened this I realized, that I’ve been there. I stayed with my aunt who lives right near there and I recognized some of the hotels nearby. Never expected it to show up on this site.

  3. 3. Scotto says:

    Neat! I live just 2 miles down the road from there!

  4. 4. Cosmo says:

    Is that a Seinfeld reference? I think so!

  5. 5. Hybrid says:

    I live a mile and a half from there…. It’s annoying… I hate that bridge… It only goes up, when YOU’RE on it…

  6. 6. Hypersky says:

    When the poster says “we don’t have boulevards over here”, where is he from?

  7. 7. James says:

    Hypersky,

    See this frequently asked question.

  8. 8. Sapientum says:

    We so do have boulevards. Have you never been to Milton Keynes?

  9. 9. James says:

    Sunrise Boulevard is indeed a nice wide (boulevard) that runs E-W through Fort Lauderdale. I had the priveledge of fleeing Ft. Lauderdale via this very bridge when Hurricaine Andrew forced the evacuation of the area.

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    10. Alex says:

    Sapientum, oh all right, so we do have *some* boulevards. And yes I have been to Milton Keynes (although I never really noticed I was there until after I left…) But I bet there’s hardly any at all in Scotland.

    (cue deluge of links to 12 squillion Scottish boulevards…)

  11. 11. Didi Hylobates says:

    We do have boulevards in America but this is not one. Unless ‘wide street’ is all you go by. Technically, though, from a city-planning perspective, a boulevard must have at least six lanes, two going in each direction in the middle and one access road in each direction separated from the middle four by (with luck) a row of trees. Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn and Queens Boulevard in Queens are the two most famous true boulevards in New York. Sunrise Boulevard is meaningless and insipid but not fake.

  12. 12. Keith T. says:

    I suppose, being on the East Coast, this boulevard is meant as a clever complement to Sunset Boulevard in L.A.

    Hmm. I wonder which came first…?

  13. 13. hypronelite says:

    I go down road that almost every day, but have never seen this!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!

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