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pontoon bridge

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pontoon bridge [pänj′tün ′brij]
(civil engineering)
A fixed floating bridge supported by pontoons.


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On March 10, Army engineers began constructing a pontoon bridge and a treadway bridge that were needed to replace the damaged railway bridge at Remagen.
Offshore, a pontoon bridge runs parallel with the expopark, offering good views back towards Neuchatel and connecting with the main architectural event: Groupe Multipack's manmade island surrounded by artificial reed beds.
Thus the crowd in these photographs is always channeled into a geometry--a pontoon bridge, an extremely dense and squared-off tent city--that collides with the sense of the infinite aroused by the number of believers and by the extremely deep field in which the throng disappears from view.
 
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