Going around Singapore (refer to http://www.traveljournal.com.ph for
pictures) I noticed this singular bridge with a base that's overgrown
with vines you cannot see the support structures anymore. Now I see it
happening along EDSA's flyovers. They put a wire around the support (was
it called pylons?) and now a vine is growing on it.
I thought: wouldn't the vines eventually put roots into the concrete and
crack it in say, 100 years?
After research I found that I was wrong.
It depends on the vines, the vines the construction people used did not
do that and it gave the added advantage of absorbing the noise that
surrounds the bridge.
So there, Vines make it pretty and quiet-ter. Now if only those buses
would stop honking just to get passengers.
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