Pryor

=Yemko Pryor =


 * 1) The name of this bridge is the Bloukrans Bridge
 * 2) The bridge was first opened in 1984 and opened in 1997 to the public. It is in Nature's Valley, Western Cape, South Africa.
 * 3) The Bloukrans bridge was built because in the 80's South Africa started to out more money into it's transportation and cars needed to cross the Bloukrans river. So it was built for cars to cross the Bloukrans river because since more cars were being used there was more traffic and more routes needed to be used.
 * 4) The Bloukrans Bridge is an arched bridge. Arch bridges are the most natural form of a bridge because everything or all the weight is under compression or distributed equally.
 * 5) How much did it cost? I HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!!!! [[image:http://www.tripsource.com/stories/Lee/Bloukrans%20Bridge-RSA.jpg]]
 * 6) Mainly concrete and steel.
 * 7) The person who designed the bridge spent most of his life working on it so it could be the biggest arch bridge n the world. How they built it was the built each side separately then joined them together in the middle, but when they tired to join them together they realized that the bridge was overlapping by a few inches. The designer was so upset since he had planned out and worked the with measurements so long that he jumped off the unfinished bridge. Later workers realized that the heat made he concrete of the bridge expand, so they cooled it and it fit perfectly.[[image:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2452335466_4bb6235cca.jpg]] Awsome Video
 * 8) The Bloukrans bridge is about 216m in height, 272m in central span, and 451m in overall length.
 * 9) The person who designed the bridge spent most of his life working on it so it could be the biggest arch bridge in the world. The Bloukrans bridge is the world's third commercially operated bungee jump. It took the place of the Victoria Falls bungee. The jump is about 160m high. cool video[[image:http://blog.holidayhomes.ca/media/blogs/blog/bloukrans_bridge_jump_2.jpg]]