pigbodine Report This Comment
Date: May 04, 2005 06:07PM

This is pretty nifty. Where is it?

darlin Report This Comment
Date: May 04, 2005 06:50PM

Sundial Bridge is over the Sacramento River in Redding, California. It had its grand opening last summer and has already been featured in several west coast special interest type magazines, noted for its design and cost (ended up around $26 mil).

pigbodine Report This Comment
Date: May 04, 2005 08:26PM

Pretty pricey. Pedestrian traffic only?
-Can you really tell the time by it? (as if THAT
would justify the cost!)

darlin Report This Comment
Date: May 04, 2005 08:35PM

Yeah there was a lot of local complaint/controversy because it was originally only estimated to cost around $6 mil. Yes you can actually tell time by it, I will post a pic of one of the markers, and yes, only foot or bicycle traffic allowed. At night the lights under the bridge shine down on the water, very pretty. The biggest benefit/justification is that it is generating a tourism industry for an area otherwise fairly slow in that department (outside of fishing, hunting, and camping type activities).

Torn Report This Comment
Date: May 05, 2005 01:26AM

thanx for the info i live about an hour away and never heard of it

Stiffler Report This Comment
Date: May 05, 2005 01:46AM

I've seen a few chicks on this site that have my sun dial reading high noon.

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: May 05, 2005 02:45AM

The Millenium Bridge at Newcastle on Tyne in England is far superior to the Sundial and yet again shows the excellence of British engineering. We also built a supersonic passenger airliner, (in a joint venture with the French), that you jealous bastards on the other side of the Atlantic couldn't accept, and banned it from virtually every U.S. airport, the real reason being that the USA had been kicked in the balls by superior engineers and designers.

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: May 05, 2005 02:59AM

www.shastalake.com/ sundialbridge/

web.redding.com/.../ sundial/stories/design.shtml

www.viamagazine.com/.../ articles/Redding04.asp

www3.shastacollege.edu/ welding/MetalArts.htm

california.construction.com/ projects/04_BestO...

darlin Report This Comment
Date: May 05, 2005 03:00AM

waa waa.

darlin Report This Comment
Date: May 05, 2005 03:15AM

cool, thanks for the links.

FrostedApe Report This Comment
Date: May 05, 2005 03:29AM

The Millenium Bridge was so "superior" that it had to be closed down. It was giving people motion sickness, and there was some concern that the swaying of it might cause it to collapse. Your "superior" Concorde couldn't carry more than 120 passengers, and even then couldn't take off without afterburners. No sale, 2137.

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: May 05, 2005 05:15AM

i had a 76 m.g. loved the car but was the biggest peice of shit car in my 45 car ownership history. bad example of british superiority

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: May 05, 2005 11:30PM



If you Limeys are so smart, why are you unable to get rid of that liar Tony Blair?

I can understand why we couldn't get rid of ours - we're all moronic religious freaks over here - but I thought surely the British would know better. I guess not. You suck just as much.

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: July 23, 2005 10:39PM

I just visited this bridge that is apparently so raved about. It's design struck me as totally alien to it's environment—stark white and aerodynamic in a organic riparian area (that's being restored, incidentally.) I found the bridge to be pretty offensive.