Reminiscenses - Pacific Coast Highway

In the mid-2000's I drove the Pacific Coast Highway from Monterey to south of Big Sur.  I noticied that the bridges were all designed with the same basic concept - a reinforced concrete compression arch structure.  The design provides a graceful shape that supports the roadbed without any superstructure to obstruct the view.  This photo is from a slide and I believe was shot south of Big Sur.

Years later, in 2009 I drove the Pacific Coast Highway in Oregon from Newport to northern California.  This shot was taken a few miles south of Newport, Oregon.

I was both pleased and surprised to see that the same design concept had been maintained for a distance spanning two states and nearly 1000 miles.