Bridge Tour
One of the most interseting tours we have been on in my eyes was the bridge tour. I found it interseting because of it history and science as a pair. Wth that being said, the cities of Buda and Pest have, in the past, struggled to create a perminant bridge to connect themselves. At first they would make temporary bridges, use barges, or even ride across the ice during the winter. Next, after the bridge was built the engineers had to handle the problems of ice and the growth and expation of the bridge depending on the time of year. Finally, in the following years durning WWII the Nazis tried to bomb and destroy the bridge. The good news is though that the bridge did not collapsed and only needed repairs in the middle of it.
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I had researched a lot about the bridges for my paper and at one point found a whole article on the restoration of the Liberty bridge. The bridge really did have good construction and only a portion of the middle collapsed, all they had to do was reconnect the two broke halves.
I also enjoyed this tour because it was interesting to see how a city like Budapest dealt with the struggle of not having a bridge because of the river current of the river current.
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