‘We need to get people off the bridge’: I-40 bridge inspectors made frantic calls to 911

WMC ^ | 5/13/2021 | NEWS

[Red Badger]

Supposedly it will partially reopen at the end of this month.

Big problem was the old bridge was already torn down, and the ‘new’ bridge was only half completed. Some barges carrying huge cranes came loose during the hurricane and then smashed into the new bridge during the storm, in three places!..................Lawsuits are plentiful.....

[Clay Moore]

Yep. As a guy that passed a nuclear pipe weld test 40 years ago and has burned probably 1000 lbs of rod and wire since, that picture doesn’t scare me in the least.

Clamp something to straighten the 2 ends ( I bet it would align a lot easier than most would believe) a few 7018 rods, grind it flat, fish plate it, and be done.

[CatOwner]

Uhhhhnhhhh, including the Bay bridge which was completely rebuilt at a cost of billion$?

That ended up having cracked welds traced back to a Chinese construction company? THAT bridge?!

[Spirit of Liberty]

I hate to bust your bubble, but interstate bridges are the responsibility of the state, not the city.

‘The process of determining those factors could take days, and the repairs could last much longer, Degges said. Arkansas is in charge of inspections, while Tennessee handles maintenance and repairs, officials said.’

https://katv.com/news/local/repairs-to-i-40-bridge-over-mississippi-river-could-take-months-official-says

So, blame two red state governors, not a blue city.

[Red Badger]

Of course we don’t know how badly rusted it is inside.................

[DoodleDawg]

Because Blue City Controlled Memphis neglected a known crack for years till a Novice could see the crack in the pillar holding up the bridge.

It's a bridge on the interstate spanning the Mississippi. Maintenance would be the responsibility of the state and not the city.

[Eleutheria5]

They signed everyone up for conflict resolution classes.

[9YearLurker]

How convenient! RIght when the Biden admin is pushing trillions in “infrastructure”!

[Bonemaker]

Another filthy, democrat controlled big city, Minneapolis, ignored their I 35 bridge problem too a few years back!

[The_Media_never_lie]

Is a bridge still considered infrastructure today?

[Texas Fossil]

It is on Interstate 40. I think this is federal project. Unless the City originally built the bridge, read somewhere is was built in 1947. That is old for a metal bridge on an interstate highway.

[Mouton]

Suggest those designers who did the pedestrian overpass in the Miami area which collapsed a few years ago NOT be hired for this project.

[mosaicwolf]

"On top of the Gas Crisis, this is just another Major crisis.'

No problem....Biden will just increase the infrastructure program by another trillion $$$. 1 billion for bridge repair and 999 billion to bail out the city of Memphis.

[nevergore]

It should buff out.....

[Eleutheria5]

Why, cracked bridges are part of the colorful, diverse local atmosphere.

[monkeyshine]

Sequestered in Memphis
https://youtu.be/l5VibntwQbM

[PGR88]

No barge or boat traffic is going to seriously screw up America’s grain markets

A huge amount of product flows down river for southern markets and for export

[Mouton]

Looking at the picture, it appears there is a good deal of rusting ever along the rivets on the plate. Were it me, I would not go over either side of the bridge, east or west.

[monkeyshine]

Don’t worry. Under Biden’s infrastructure plan Transportation Secretary Pootietang will just blow them up for being racist.