Photos: Vernier Street Bridge
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View of plaque.
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Various views beside bridge from southeast quadrant.
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Elevation from modern M-29 Bridge.
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Portal views.
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View beside bridge from northwest quadrant. The black dots on the bridge are hundreds of mayflies, as this photo was taken at the height of mayfly season.
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If you are fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to visit this bridge during the mayfly season, you may smell a rotting fish smell around the bridge. These photos detail what the source is... a pile of dead mayflies under the nearby advertising billboard... the lights attract these insects, and with their short lifespans, they die there.
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Views of girder.
Girder details.
Views under deck.
Views of exposed wood and steel reinforcing rods.
Abutment.
Various views of the girders.
End post details.
Views of plaque.
Elevation from current M-29 Bridge.
Various views beside bridge from southeast quadrant.
Various views beside bridge from southwest quadrant.
Overviews of bridge.
Portal views.
If you are fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to visit this bridge during the mayfly season, you may smell a rotting fish smell around the bridge. These photos detail what the source is... a pile of dead mayflies under the nearby advertising billboard... the lights attract these insects, and with their short lifespans, they die there.
This plaque is on the current 1973 M-29 Bridge
View of the current 1973 M-29 Bridge, showing the old 1932 abutments it sits on.
