Minneapolis river bridge!

[mrtazwrench]

i seen it on the news here i only thought stuff like
that happened out here after a 7.0 on the richter scale
you guys are way lucky you didn't get caught up in that mess.
hopefully nobody died and the engineers that designed it get
in big trouble.

That bridge is almost 50 years old according to the reports. The engineers that designed it are probably long dead.

Fuzz thats funny you mention the trusses and bearings a report in 1990 showed severe corrosion on the bearings but those were corrected and the bridge was being annually inspected.

I wonder if its due to the roadwork they were doing on the bridge? Maybe someone playing with a jackhammer hit the right spot or something?

-Dave

It was 40 years old, and desigined to handle a fraction of current traffic levels.

[fuzz401]

the way I under stand the brige is to be bidded on today for the new one from what I under stand were I work is going to bid on it for the steel but don't think we will get it due to the shipping distance from SE Pa.

[rollen dean montoya]

they found 1 bridge with the same design out here. its
crossing the san gabriel river in asuza canyon on hwy-39.
so far there has been no failures even with the earthquakes we
have here. this road is lightly traveled.

[Mudrat]

Pictures from a Russian website???
http://drugoi.livejournal.com/2280005.html

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[fuzz401]

the new Bridge will be concreat instead of steel

[BREK]

Yeah and I seen on the news last night that the state chose a company to build the new bridge. The company that is going to be building the bridge gave the most expensive estimate and the longest time frame to build it.

[fuzz401]

we were low bid on steel but the generial contractor went with concreat instead

[jeepsr4ever]

[Soylent_Green]

Almost seems like they went with the highest bidder so they can avoid the "cheaping out" criticism. Which is total BS, any of the builders are going to give you a quality product. It comes down to politics, plain and simple.

[fuzz401]

word has it the concreat might not get it now they were from what I understand 60 million higher then us so call your state reps and tell them you dont want to spend 60 million more out of your tax dollars then you have to