Bis heute gibt es immer noch Hinweise auf den Versuch eines „Cross-Florida Greenway“-Lastkahnkanals, der 1971 begonnen und aufgegeben wurde. Viele der Kanäle, Brücken und andere Infrastrukturen sind immer noch sichtbar und verfallen, eine Möglichkeit, Florida zu durchqueren, ohne sie zu umgehen – hier rot eingekreist
Von fakeaccount572
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Florida is a weird state in that from Orlando all the way south to Miami: the land is one huge, slow moving swampy river. Permanently dry land has been engineered to be that way using every civil and hydro-engineering trick in the book.
This was the first major civil engineering project in the US to be cancelled due to environmental issues. I remember the hoorah at the time. The enormous bridge where State Road 40 crosses the tiny Oklawaha River is still in use.
Now most of the remnants are essentially a long linear park. The Florida Trial runs thru it, as well as being one of the top mountain biking destinations in the state. Equestrian sections and camping also. It’s a beautiful place and the unfinished canal diggings make for hilly and rocky terrain in an otherwise flat state.
Unfortunately some remnants such as the Rodman reservoir and associated dams/locks represent unresolved environmental damage.
It’s called the Gap Chasm and a dragon lives in it.