It drives me nuts that so little design consideration was taken with the concrete piers. Would it have killed them to make them more sculptural? Not even sculptural, just graceful. These seem completely thoughtless, which is the worst kind of design. They could have flaired out from bottom to top and the cross girder could have been flush with the vertical columns instead set down on top with little relationship. They could have also gone with a solid pier like these on the Øresund Bridge in Denmark, which by the way has a railway on the lower deck:
http://www.arup.com/~/media/Images/C...hx?h=395&w=962
Amazing how that works. *Rolls eyes*
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