Very clean, stylish and visually attractive design, and most of all practical :)

I realize it is just a concept, but they probably lost due to how low the one side is to the water. That seems problematic to me, but I\'m not an engineer or an architect. However, I am observant that most bridges over bodies of water have substantial clearance.

Very artistic design however, what happen when water level rise, abnormally storm? ships and boats?

The lowest part of that bridge looks to be about 15-20 feet off the water. Probably no reason it can\'t be built in the same style and even higher. Maybe it got shot down because it would be too fun to drive over and they are afraid of heavy traffic with people turning around to drive back and forth.

The left and right debate. Having just done a \'google\' on the subject to verify what I believed already, it appears that the evidence suggest much of the US was divided on what side of the road people drove their carts etc. even up until the introduction of the automobile. The history lies in Europe where Napoleon for the sake of \'change\', converted all the countries which he conquered to driving on the right. This is because he thought it was the english that introduced left hand driving.
It has to be something so simple like, the fact that if 90% of horsemen were right-handed then obviously it was natural for them to hold their swords with their right hands and even their lances.
What has to be the most ironic thing is Napoleon was fanatical about the Roman Empire and everything roman. And as the news article reports that it was the romans that introduced the road code throughout europe. Had he known, we would all be driving on the left. And all the signal and horn controls in your vehicles would be standardised throughout the motor industry thus reducing traffic accidents by half. Stupid frenchman!

Ken

You don\'t have to an engineer to conceive this :rolleyes:

Problem:
A general traffic rule for which you can be fined if you do not obey it is that you must drive to the utmost right (for most people that drive in a country that generally drive on the right hand side of roads) if you are not overtaking a car (or other very good reason not to drive on the utmost right), with the exception of traffic jam driving. The logic behind this is to allow space to be there for overtaking cars. Overtaking, MUST, by law, be done to the left of the moving object they are overtaking (except in traffic jams). What you think will happen if you cross a border where there is a lot of traffic and not a traffic jam? All trucks need to go from left lane to right lane and vice versa...

two solutions, disconnect all lanes and swap em all like a spaghetti (too expensive) or make a bottleneck to one lane in each direction and swap those based on the above design.

One lane should remain straight and unchanged,bank to bank. The other should run parallel and at the proper point move upwards and over the other. Upon reaching the opposite bank,it then moves downwards into proper placement.
Now really, is that so complicated?

concept k design mr k, necessity is the mother of invention

The most serious problem with changing sides of the road is that buses must discharge their passengers into traffic, unless your bus has doors on both sides. This recently happened in Samoa, when they decided to change. It was a very real concern.

How I wish everyone drove on the same side. Right or left, doesn't matter, just THE SAME!