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Posted by WillD on Tue Nov 29 00:28:57 2011, in response to Re: Best ''Wish List'' Proposal Ever, posted by JRice on Mon Nov 28 13:05:30 2011. To be fair it really was the political connections the groups arrayed against the Brooklyn Battery Bridge had with the White House, which lead the Secretary of War to reject the BBB proposal on the grounds that it'd obstruct the Brooklyn Naval Yard. The actual clearance of the proposed bridge (around 200 feet IINM) was more than sufficient for anything in the US Navy's fleet. In any event the USN's fleet was restricted to 190 feet air draft by the Panama Canal, so the BBB would have been a non-issue.Just twenty years later the US Navy had no such objections to the Verrazano Bridge, despite an almost insignificant increase in clearance at a time when US Navy ships were growing *much* taller than their prewar predecessors, and the fact that its collapse would obstruct a much more strategically vital channel. Admittedly in the intervening years there were some changes in both transatlantic shipping and military logistics which reduced the role of the Hudson, but any objections to the Brooklyn Battery Bridge in 1939 should still have been perfectly valid as the Verrazano was being conceived in the 1960s. |
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