Posted on 01/20/2015 6:13:56 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
The crew prolly shouldn’t had brought the bridge down in such big pieces.
maybe this was one of those shovel-ready jobs were heard about a few years ago,,, that never happened . .
One of the local tv stations is saying there is a condition in the demolition contract that the company will be fined $2500/lane closed every 20 minutes...
OMG! We HAVE to RAISE THOSE GAS TAXES or we’re ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!! /s
There is a small bridge over a creek in my town of southern NH that has been shut down over two years. The stream is about 15’ wide and maybe 20” deep during spring runoff. The reconstruction has been delayed because if the town waited we could get the state to pay 80% of its rebuilding cost.
This is a small bridge that I think I could rebuild with two 6’ Stainless steel culverts and a couple concrete reinforced abutments. I would think if this was on my property it would cost about $75-100K. The span of this bridge is not more than 20’.
The price I read in my local paper to rebuild the bridge is over $1 million dollars. I thought it was a mistake so I called and spoke to my local state rep. He said the price in the paper was correct and that is why the town has waited to get the state funding in the next biannual budget.
I was shocked to say the least.
That’s like talking about charging the bank robber with jaywalking as he left. It really is bad form to wreck a truck and kill the driver.
Time to rename that bridge to “HOPE AND CHANGE”
Maybe huge liability issues that you wouldn’t need to worry about for a private project.
of course it was an accident..but it will be used by Obie as evidence of his NEED..... to Spend more of Or Money ....on Infrastructure...in certain districts in Blue States...
Someone show me where on a map. What on/off ramp is closest to it.
I’m not very conversant with the area & I had planned to go through there on Thursday. From 71 in Kentucky to 75 to the north side of town.
I take it this means I have t take the 275 bypass all the way around the city?
Pretty sure that Google Maps will show the trouble spot; for many areas they now have both traffic and construction data.
“That headline appears to be straight from the Department of Redundancy Department”.
Actually it was written by the person who graduated first in their class at Columbia School Of Journalism.
I assume the closed bridge has some cost to it as well going on 2+ years of non usage.
oops should read better. the driver wasn’t killed (yet)
benefits & costs... by operating it might bring in more business which means taxe$
J B HUNT! That is one of our local trucking companies!
It could be worse redundancy:
BRIDGE COLLAPSE: Collapsing bridge in Cincinnati bridge collapse: 1 dead, 1 hurt after Ohio bridge collapses
abc15.com ^ | January 19, 2015
Posted on 1/20/2015, 9:13:56 AM by ilovesarah2012
CINCINNATI, OHIO - A bridge collapsed when the Ohio overstate collapsed. Upon collapsing, the bridge collapse collapsed the bridge, collapsing on one person and injuring another. The bridge collapse collapsed commuter traffic around the Cincinnati region early Tuesday. Once the bridge collapsed, it collapsed the bridge.
Cincinnati Police Chief Jeff Blackwell was quoted to say, “The collapsed bridge collapsed. This collapsing bridge is a bridge collapse. Watch out, the bridge collapsed. Bridge collapse.”
Collapsing-bridge authorities say a construction worker was killed when the collapsing bridge collapsed the bridge, and the bridge collapse collapsed on a tractor-trailer driver, who was injured when the Interstate 75 bridge overpass collapsed about 10:30 p.m. Monday.
Bridge collapse.
Cincinnati Police Chief Jeff Blackwell — “...something went ‘terribly wrong.’”
And your first clue was?
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