Pereira-Webber

J.P. Pereira-Webber

Ponte Octavio Frias De Oliveira is located in São Paulo, Brasil. It started being constructed in 2005, and finally was completed in 2008. The purpose of this bridge, is to connect one of the biggest avenues in Brazil. Brazil has a huge traffic problem, and they try and find so many ways of reducing traffic. Before this bridge was built, it sometimes took hours to get to the other side of the river, because the distance between on bridge and the other was large. Also, the bridge connects one of the other main avenues directly to th other side of the river, which helped traffic tremendously. It connects Venida José Bonifácio C. Nogueira with Avenida Marginal do Rio Pinheiros. It is a Cable Stayed bridge, which is a bridge which has at least one column, with cables coming out of the columns. Ponte Octavio Frias de Oliveira cost just over 180 million dollars. During the building process a worker died. One problem the engineers face was the distribution of weight. They over came this by putting a mechanism inside of the "X" The bridge is 1600 meters long, and 138 meters tall. During the night, the bridge turns different colors because of the lighting. The mixture of a red blue and green light creates the color. Panasonic sponsors the lights.

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