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A collapsed, charred bridge is not only an inconvenience to the progress of a foe, but an impediment should he wish to make an expeditious withdrawal. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #37)

These are usually arched, small, and easily burned. I have never been in a Gorean high city, a tower city, but I understand that the towers of such cities are often joined by graceful, narrow, arching bridges, often high above the street level, bridges which may be easily defended or destroyed in the case of an attack, this rendering each tower an independent, defensible keep, each supplied with food, water, and weaponry. One conjectures, similarly, that the vulnerability of many of the bridges in Port Kar, like ornamented, lanterned, lovely, painted tinder, is unlikely to be mere coincidence. A collapsed, charred bridge is not only an inconvenience to the progress of a foe, but an impediment should he wish to make an expeditious withdrawal. The walkway on the Thieves' Way was some ten feet in width, on both sides of the canal. To my left was the canal; to my right were buildings, some portaled with stout, carved doorways, their associated barred gates now open, to be closed at dark, and several housing open-sided stores and shops, furnished with folding, wooden screens, to be shut after the time of business, which, as with most Gorean businesses, opened at daylight, and closed either in the early afternoon or at dusk. I was well within a pasang of the great arsenal of Port Kar, with its warehouses, shops, vast shipyard, and inner harbor. - (Quarry of Gor)