The project includes the construction of a six-lane divided carriageway, interchanges, RCC bridges, reinforced earth abutments/walls, overhead pedestrian bridges, culverts, sub-ways, underpasses, flyovers and related works.

Over the subsequent two years, more than $65,000 would be spent to rehabilitate the line: replacing ties, reinforcing bridges, and filling in most of the Peapack trestle.

Vancouver has been spending millions of dollars to reinforce bridges and build water and sewer lines that could withstand an earthquake of 8 on the Richter scale, Mr. Campbell said.

It is used to reinforce current bridges to allow heaver traffic.

It also seemed clear from the new drainage ditches and reinforced bridges along the rocky road leading to the rebel stronghold where the convention was held that the Government had been actively involved in helping it to take place.

The president's plan also calls for another $500 million, money that the Bush administration says states like New York can use to reinforce bridges, tunnels and other landmarks.

Engineers have to go back to the drawing board to determine how best to reinforce structures, road and bridges to survive possibly more powerful quakes.

Numerous sites running along the New River were examined including the twin reinforced concrete bridges in Brawley.

It reinforced bridges and improved roads throughout the area and also performed countermobility missions such as booby trapping the woods around Galhausen and laying a minefield in the vicinity of Lierneaux.

Shortly after the Hardy Bridge was finished, state highway engineers abandoned through truss and reinforced concrete bridges except for the widest river crossings, and switched to steel girder and steel stringer (multiple girder) bridges.