Double Drawbridge
Friday, 10th June 2005 by Alex Turnbull
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 😉
Thanks: Thomas Ploskina
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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 Sunset Cliffs Blvd in San Diego. (a picture from Sunset Cliffs Blvd)
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.
Neat! I live just 2 miles down the road from there!
Is that a Seinfeld reference? I think so!
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…
When the poster says “we don’t have boulevards over here”, where is he from?
Hypersky,
See this frequently asked question.
We so do have boulevards. Have you never been to Milton Keynes?
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.
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…)
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.
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…?
I go down road that almost every day, but have never seen this!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!