Braga Bridge Anniversary Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. At the height of this hurricane in 1985, the bridge was closed to all but emergency vehicles.
  2. 7. DPW Commissioner Frank Sargent called the Braga Bridge a “golden anchor” in the highway network linking Providence to this town on the Cape.
  3. 8. The world's current largest arch bridge is the Chaotianmen Bridge over this river in China.
  4. 11. Because of their “facility for work in high places,” Native Americans from these groups made up much of the Braga Bridge building crew: Mohawk, Seneca and _____.
  5. 12. Its oldest surviving stone bridge is the Zhaozhou Bridge.
  6. 13. This truss is a structure of connected elements forming units in what shape?
  7. 15. The Braga Bridge was opened to walkers on this holiday.
  8. 16. This is made up of multiple bridges connected into one longer structure.
  9. 18. Suspension bridge cables are usually made of steel coated with this.
Down
  1. 1. Harbor Charles Braga Jr. was a Fall River sailor who died where?
  2. 2. Zee Braga Bridge Superintendent Victor A. Vogel had also worked on the Bourne and Sagamore bridges and this well-known span in New York state.
  3. 4. The greatest bridge builders of antiquity.
  4. 5. These falcons roost under bridge.
  5. 6. The world's longest beam bridge is Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in this southern state.
  6. 9. Washington This double-decked bridge connects New York City to Bergen County, New Jersey, and is the world's busiest bridge.
  7. 10. With the advent of steel, much larger bridges were built, many using the ideas of this French tower builder and namesake.
  8. 14. A bridge that carries water.
  9. 17. This civilization in the Andes mountains of South America used rope bridges, a simple type of suspension bridge.