Hoover Dam Bridge Opening Day October 16, 2010

A full wrap up of the festivities surrounding the opening of the Hoover Dam Bridge that is officially named the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge.

Video Transcript

the second highest bridge in america open on saturday october sixteenthacross the keyboard to the colorado riverofficially cole the mike callahan pat tillman memorial bridgeyou spend connects the seeds of arizona nevadathe massive concrete knowledge cross is right in front of the mishandling thenfreshener structure that was once the almost a moralevery year nearly a million people take their toll landmark structurelistening to the bottom of the caning in for a close-up view of a massiveturbines to keep the lights glimmering las vegas twenty four-hours-a-dayyear-roundgave sort of off of the heresy in the hotelrick constant stream of double-decker buses were meeting to discuss all forthe new groupafter a quick check from security it was time to get onto the busthe reported seventy five double-decker r_t_c_ buses and servicethe fleet seem to rival the one in londonfirst crossing the bridge was a piecewe were too far from the north side of the bridge to see if either the damn allthe callsit also became evidence that walk across this huge bridge was going to be morethan just a stroll in the fallwith temperatures reaching into the nineties freed what it was the numberone the sesame within in a supplypackage and special commemorative alsothe heat made it tough for those who had to be there all day longoverthrown just kept on comingfifteen thousand people showed up in what was the longest bridge openingsince the second coleman narrows bridge in washington statelong lines quickly formed at the special errors that were created to feedeveryone over for for our concrete barrierinto the narrow yesterday more quitinside the tents video displays of construction of the bridge as well as ahistory of the banposters specially created by horace bridges dot com became a populargathering spot for those who have interested to find out what the world'stwenty highest bridge if lauramany were surprised to see that most of them are in chinavoice camps were not the only ones on handis even subscales came by to learn about constructions and thank you meganfestivitiesamateur videographers will also on hand to document this poor guyseveral permanent displayswhen the boss sawed slowly became more popular than the arrows on the sidethe legacy of a former governor michael callahanin afghanistan only sort of pat tillmanall shown at the west end of the bridgeconstructed using its cable file on half a mile longthe process of constructing toothalso the altar shown several diagramsthe media was they have a full force local news crews from las vegas coveringthe eventtop journalists sean upholstered charlie a resumerepublic newspaper also on hand to finally see the finished bridgehe also took a peek at the new visitor center parking arealocated just off of the old route ninety threethe new parking area is nearly fully with visitors can access the bridgewalkwaystretching nearly half a mile from one side of the caseinto the otherthe pedestrian walkway was the place todayat eight hundred ninety feet in heightthe new concrete onto the with two hundred feet higher than it's seventythree year old neighbor to the lawflanked on the east side by the arizona state flagand on the west side by the nevada state flag a huge american flag communists andi think a lot for all to seefor many great fight was probably a bit too much to saythose who weren't crazy p ninety stories above the colorado riverbut these were still spectacularas you might expect many people were snapping photosvoice gifts from off the only people with an american flag as the patriarchalas one of the story everywherecoming up nextis the game or a lines to get over the bay area just seem to get long-run longsaid late the public was not allowed on the south side of the bridgewith the national goal to the colorado river canyon offers a very differentview the hoover dam sidefor some feels more farm to return the water back into the river from which hecame fromin such a high-profile structure security was tightreally tightweb of a new spanish-speaking greatness for bridging americaone thing's for sure it as a modelengineering equal to its predecessorthree hundred-foot drop down to the famous gooseneck trend fills a reminderof the long twisted real the drivers will once forced to take since the damwas completed in nineteen thirty sixdisablement wallace on who's a specialist noforest pouring down into the came to see that they have a moment for you on intoarizonaforemostthe extra fifteen minute draw it wasn't the inconvenience that will not bemissedhopeful somethe old route across sudan was installed to drive back into timewhen the west was wide open mall status was a small townis the date more on became apparent that the ones to get back on the buses weregoing to be as long as the lines to climb over the parentsalmond evolved side they were even more bosses at the pickup area as well as alot more portable toiletsin keeping with the theme of the london double-decker buswe traveled on the wrong side of the hard way just as if we're in england

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