{"id":13786,"date":"2004-12-15T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/15\/worlds-highest-road-bridge-inaugurated\/"},"modified":"2004-12-15T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T14:35:00","slug":"worlds-highest-road-bridge-inaugurated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/15\/worlds-highest-road-bridge-inaugurated\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Highest Road Bridge Inaugurated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Millau Bridge\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/millaubridge.jpg\" \/>The <i>BBC<\/i> reports that &ldquo;The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/4091813.stm\" target=\"_blank\">world&rsquo;s highest road bridge has been inaugurated<\/a> in southern France by President Jacques Chirac.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Millau bridge over the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains is more than 300m (984ft) high &#8211; taller even than the country&rsquo;s Eiffel Tower.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge, which opens to traffic on Thursday, was built to clear summer traffic jams around the town.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The French site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viaducdemillaueiffage.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>le Viaduc de Millau<\/i><\/a> has some more information, although you may need to use the services of <a href=\"http:\/\/babelfish.altavista.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Babelfish<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/language_tools?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Google Language Tools<\/a> if you don&rsquo;t read French.<\/p>\n<p>This bridge looks awfully cool, although at that height I&rsquo;d probably be too scared to appreciate it&hellip; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110312130476584423?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that &ldquo;The world&rsquo;s highest road bridge has been inaugurated in southern France by President Jacques Chirac.&rdquo; The Millau bridge over the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains is more than 300m (984ft) high &#8211; taller even than the country&rsquo;s Eiffel Tower. The bridge, which opens to traffic on Thursday, was built &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/15\/worlds-highest-road-bridge-inaugurated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World&#8217;s Highest Road Bridge Inaugurated&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}