I-95 shut down for emergency repairs

Source: Philadelphia Enquirer

Interstate 95 through Philadelphia will be shut down for at least two days as contractors rush to repair a crumbling support column.

A jagged crack, about 8-feet long and two inches wide, was discovered on a concrete pillar late Monday night as an inspection crew traveled under the highway near Cambria Avenue in the city's Port Richmond section.

For the next two days, both northbound and southbound Interstate traffic will be detoured onto city streets creating nightmares for commuters and neighborhood residents.

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Rebar - exposed, twisted and rusted - could be seen this morning where the concrete had been shorn away from the pillar. It is one of three 15-foot-high concrete columns that support the interstate where it runs over Richmond Street between Ann and Cambria Streets.

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080318_I-95_shut_down_for_emergency_repairs.html

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Yet another example of how our infrastructure is crumbing while our fearless leader pursues his pet wars.

was to take the money earmarked for taxpayer checks and put it into repairing infrastructure?

Permanent tax cuts for the rich and expensive bail-outs of financial institutions are the only way to ensure are longterm fiscal solvency.

Mike Huckabee. His plan was to add an extra lane each way to I-95. American labor, concrete, and steel will help the economy. Something like 1/3 of America lives with 100 miles of I-95.

and it would be better to do it in a green way. But the fact that the Huckster even thought infrastructure important is telling, I think.

Barack Obama has constantly made the statement that we need to invest in green ventures and in our infrastructure and he would pay for this by removing the tax cuts for the rich and stop the war.

we need to think about how people can live without automobiles at least for commuting to work and school during the week.

The new infrastructure planning should include train systems and sidewalks.

Republicans wanting less government has made the infrastructure a frigging death trap.

.... from Boston to the Beltway, it's nothing but a concrete hell.

when the South Street Bridge across I76 began to crumble.

You'd think that that would have set inspectors abuzz in the following months and years. You'd think it, but you'd be wrong.

Coulda used all that Iraq $$$ for something worthwhile. Who needs to drive down the road with peace-of-mind when we need SECURITY!

Those Republican bastards don't want to invest in our bridges and infrastructure. Bridge collapses (and economic collapses) are risks they are more than willing to take in the pursuit of profit.

they found they could funnel off more from the budget to their own pockets from the miltary. the war has cost more than to rebuild all the bgidges in the country.
The estimate in 2006 was 280 billion to up grade all the bridges and overpasses in the country.
They piss away more than that a year in IRAQ. ever wonder how much oil is being stolen over there?

solving the greatest problems facing America...........NOT.

We got off of I-95 around there to get to my grandmom's house.

The whole area was dilapidated 10 years ago. I can't imagine how bad it's gotten since.

Just for that, I'll tell my I-95 story: One dreary February morning, I was sitting up front in a commuter bus from the Bronx to midtown Manhattan. The driver sighed, "For ten cents, I'd drive this thing straight to Florida." Me and the other passengers reached for our wallets and shouted directions--"Get on I-95 South and JUST KEEP GOING!"

:rofl:
rocknation

but I figured Philadelphia in the first line of text was a dead giveaway.

I love that I-95 story, I would gladly have given a dime for a trip to Florida (as long as it was near my cousin's house).

Can't remember for sure about the bridges, but I know he cut funding severely for road maintenance as my family had been in that business for a long time and had to close shop due to him. They hoped to wait it out, figuring that people would need roads, but couldn't manage to do so.

...failing infrastructure, again? Things get old...don't they?