By Craig T. Kojima, Star-Bulletin
Ford Island Bridge artist's rendering, bottom,
and a photo of the completed work.
Some Wat Dats you can see coming from a long way off. We've had our eye on this one, a big construction project taking over a big part of Pearl Harbor. The Navy calls it a "causeway," but it sure looks like a bridge to us. It's shaped funny because the middle part is moveable, handy in case the Navy moves ships around. Bridging the gap
between vision, reality
It opens next week. But you can forget about traveling on it. The causeway is for Ford Island residents and workers only. But it made us wonder how the thing was envisioned in the first place. The design is by Belt Collins Hawaii. So we borrowed an artist's rendering of the planned project from the archives of the Arizona Memorial, and photographed the completed work from exactly the same angle.
In this case, a picture really IS worth a thousand words, and two worth twice that. So we'll shut up and let you decide if "artist's renderings" can be trusted.
Burl Burlingame, Star-Bulletin.
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