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OT: Minneapolis Bridge
glynor:
I drove in to work this morning listening to the radio reports from Minneapolis and thinking "I hope everyone from JRiver and families are okay"... My thoughts are most certainly with you all today.
--- Quote from: KingSparta on August 02, 2007, 05:44:37 am ---I keep thinking about the bridge i go over a few times a day, and is on the north Carolina's worst bridges here in Fayetteville, N.C.
Every month or so they are out there trying to fix the cement that always cracks again. I wonder if we will need to see the same thing happen here before someone does something about it.
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The state of America's bridges is appalling, but there is little money to fix most of these issues unfortunately. Near my home in Maine, we recently got "forced" to completely replace a major bridge (the Waldo Hancock Bridge across the Penobscot River). They were doing a repair on it, like they do on so many of the bridges in America (duct tape and chicken wire), and "discovered" that it was a hop-skip-and-a-jump from falling down.
We were just lucky, really...
AoXoMoXoA:
America's infrastructure is seriously deteriorated and this continues unchecked.
Unfortunately there will likely be more of this sort of thing. :'(
mlefebvre:
--- Quote from: AoXoMoXoA on August 02, 2007, 08:30:18 am ---America's infrastructure is seriously deteriorated and this continues unchecked.
Unfortunately there will likely be more of this sort of thing. :'(
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Similar situation here. Last year an overpass bridge fell and crushed 3 cars that were driving on the highway below it.
After a one year probe, the goverment of Quebec just banned large truck from using 138 overpasses and bridges in the province. But still no word if they will be repaired or replaced...
My thought go out to Minneapolis. I think I may have taken that bridge when I went to visit JRiver a couple of years ago...
Michel.
Yaobing:
This morning, as I told the story of Minneapolis bridge, our nanny's reaction was: "This happens in the US too?!".
We are used to hearing about bridge/building collapses in China, where, due to greed of contractors and corruption of officials, many infrastructures are constructed with subclass materials and work.
KingSparta:
Out Of 18,540 bridges in North Carolina, 5,647 are substandard
If you visit north Carolina's visitor site, they tout that north Carolina has more roads than any state in the U.S.A.
The bridge i go over every day has a one foot gap in part of the road where the first 6 inches has crumbled and re-bar is showing.
The underside of the bridge is collapsing and it is not on the top 10 list of our worst bridges.
I may call the radio station tomorrow AM 640 Talk Radio, and ask the question whether we need to see someone die first before someone reacts to the state of this bridge.
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