Minneapolis river bridge!

mrtazwrench

dbesade wrote
rollen dean montoya wrote
i seen it on the news here :shock: i only thought stuff like
that happened out here after a 7.0 on the richter scale :shock:
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

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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

jeep_man_401

Funny...I still haven't heard why it collapsed... :-|

tufcj

From this morning's news.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300285,00.html

Bob
tufcj

jeep_man_401

Yeh...still no reason for the collapse. My guess is it was do to the work being done on it and all the construction equipment plus the traffic. Bet you see more reroutes in the future. They may never come out and say this because now all these groups want the tax dollars and more and more. The news came out with all these bridges that need inspected and replaced etc etc thousands nation wide. well a concrete culvert qualifies as a "bridge" in the "study". I'm SO sick of these "studies" we see on the news. Anybody can word a study to get the answers or things they want. I wish the news would print some of the questions on those studies! But that is the government...throw more money at anything wrong. Maybe if I had 100 million dollars I could throw at that little oil leak on the truck it would fix itself? :-| OK...I feel alittle better now. 8)

Mudrat

Dude!!! When you find that oil leak let us all know so we can save the $100 million dollars :shock: I'll split it with ya :wink: And even the NTSB doesn't take this long to "investigate" an Aircraft "mechanical" - what's the hold up with a bridge that wasn't flying?? :-| And a culvert works for me. Can they make them that big from a single concrete pipe??? Sorry Fuzz, I know tht cuts into the grocery money :oops:

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