{"id":1760,"date":"2014-05-05T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2014-05-04T22:14:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T05:14:11","slug":"don-burnett-pedestrian-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/2014\/05\/don-burnett-pedestrian-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Burnett Pedestrian Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chowla.com\/img\/web\/2\/don-burnett-bridge-4260628-h700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Don Burnett Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chowla.com\/img\/web\/2\/don-burnett-bridge-4260628-h700.jpg\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d driven under this bridge many times and its form would often catch my eye. \u00a0The bridge crosses over Interstate 280 between Sunnyvale and Cupertino. \u00a0 The design is striking which is unexpected for a modern piece of public infrastructure. \u00a0I don&#8217;t expect California with its near constant budget crises to be building anything but ugly utilitarian designs. \u00a0 In this case, some<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westerncity.com\/Western-City\/February-2010\/Cupertino-rsquos-New-Bridge-Is-Infrastructure-Art-mdash-and-Affordable\/\"> creative thinking in using steel saved millions of dollars<\/a>\u00a0in construction costs. \u00a0My original suspicion was correct though in that Caltrans only permits concrete construction to reduce maintenance costs. \u00a0The city of Cupertino had to agree to maintain the bridge to get Caltrans to approve it. \u00a0 \u00a0 The result is a beautiful piece of architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;d driven under this bridge many times and its form would often catch my eye. \u00a0The bridge crosses over Interstate 280 between Sunnyvale and Cupertino. \u00a0 The design is striking which is unexpected for a modern piece of public infrastructure. \u00a0I don&#8217;t expect California with its near constant budget crises to be building anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,7],"tags":[93,70],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-silicon-valley","tag-cupertino","tag-sunnyvale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chowla.com\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}