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Goodheart

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9. About the bridge, itself... It sure looks like it was built on the cheap

Reply to ProudMNDemocrat (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 11:23 AM

Mar 27

Check the video. The ship crashes into the left pylon, detaches the roadway from that one, and then the road sort of seesaws over the other one and then down.

Did no one foresee that a ship crashing into one of the supports would cause the entire roadway to disappear? Seems to me that at the very least the road between the right support and the land should have survived... thus sparing all the lives that might have been on that portion of the bridge.

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Lessons for Baltimore: How Minneapolis recovered from its I-35W bridge collapse 17 years ago [View all] ProudMNDemocrat Mar 27 OP

Not entirely relevant... brooklynite Mar 27 #1

Man, no joke Goodheart Mar 27 #2

But there is a relationship between the two. MineralMan Mar 27 #3

If it was built over water it can be removed over water. No problem. n/t. Scruffy1 Mar 27 #8

But the bridge in Baltimore was first bumped by the ship, no? question everything Mar 27 #4

Bumped? PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 27 #7

The closest to something like this Deep State Witch Mar 27 #5

And it took 7 years to replace... nt mitch96 Mar 27 #11

Very different bridges, of course; but I think the point of the article Ocelot II Mar 27 #6

About the bridge, itself... It sure looks like it was built on the cheap Goodheart Mar 27 #9

The bridge was built 50 years ago for a different world. localroger Mar 27 #10

Maybe ships with cargo should not be allowed past that point? LiberalFighter Mar 27 #12