Anyone who looks at this blog even so much as semi-regularly is probably familiar with this landmark:
It's one of the bridges that spans one of the lengths of the Songhua River and helps connect the commercial center of the city to the more residential Jiangnan ("South of the River") district, and probably the most-used of them all. After all, this bridge is part of Jilin Dajie (Jilin Street/Road), the main street that runs straight down the entire length of the entire metropolis.
And for the longest time, I thought that was all there was to really know about this particular piece of infastructure (besides the fact that it's one of the few places that has regular traffic snarls). However, while taking another stroll along the riverbank, I found out that it actually had a rather enormous surprise in store.
Although I don't know what the age of the bridge is, but judging from my own two eyes, chances are that it may be one of the first modern bridges to span the width of the Songhua here. For as far as I can tell, it looks like the originally bridge was fairly narrow before they had to enlarge it by more or less building a twin right alongisde it and connecting the two together on top.
Otherwise, I simply cannot explain any of what I see here. When one stands beneath the whole structure, it's very clear that there's two distinct parts of it.
One side:
And the other:
Now here we go one more time; two views of the exact same bridge, and two very noticable differences.
Congratulations to you, Jilin Street bridge; for nearly two years and the scores of times that I've crossed you, you sucessfully hid a secret that was as large as yourself.
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