Recent Examples on the WebPhase two will incorporate CLT and glulam in exterior features like a footbridge and canopies sheltering photovoltaic arrays.—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2024 Wear water shoes with good grippy tread even at the height of summer, when park rangers place temporary footbridges — wooden planks — over some of the deeper spots.—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024 One example of Huang’s hardship was his daily high school experience: The teenager had to cross a dangerous footbridge with missing planks over a river to get to his public school in Kentucky, where he was then relentlessly tormented.—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2024 The plan is to not allow visitors north of the Big Sable River and close the dam, footbridge and highway bridge.—Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024 Immediately after the bridge, turn right and uphill, following signs over the footbridge to W 181st St, through Washington Heights to Fort Tryon Park.—Francesca Carington, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2024 In 2015, a particularly bad winter storm destroyed a footbridge and washed away the statue, leading to the construction of the big suspension bridge, a replacement statue and a newer, bigger clearing, which opened in 2022.—oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023 To get to school, Huang had to cross a rickety pedestrian footbridge over a river.—Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023 The main house is situated on one side, while a guest residence and a caretaker’s house sit on the other, with the two halves connected by a private footbridge.—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2023
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