Cincinnati bridge collapse: 1 dead, 1 hurt after Ohio bridge collapses

abc15.com ^ | January 19, 2015

[BB62]

The Hopple Street exit off of NB I-75 is what collapsed, onto SB I-75. The exit is to the LEFT.

The new exit is to the right.

Some I-74 traffic has also been re-rerouted.

Check Cincinnati TV stations WKRC, WCPO and WLWT for more info.

[Nepeta]

Bridge collapse.

Language can be such fun. I wish more people could still write.

[Straight Vermonter]

Maybe huge liability issues that you wouldn’t need to worry about for a private project.

The government has sovereign immunity. They never have to worry about liability.

[Lazamataz]

I luff language. I luff it all to pieces.

[Nepeta]

I luff language. I luff it all to pieces.

I can tell. Huzzah, and keep up the luffing of language.

[eartick]

We have a winner!!!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Can they shield the private contractors, too, behind that? If not, they are going to want to cover the insurance policy they will need for a publicly trafficked facility.

[Verginius Rufus]

Well, since John Kasich is Governor of Ohio and is a Republican, it must be his fault. Another Republican governor hit with a “Bridgegate.”

[ken in texas]

Thanks for clarifying that. I wasn’t sure if it had fallen down or collapsed. ;-)

[Thank You Rush]

I wonder if this is a bridge obozo posed in front of a few years back when he was spreading the money around for infrastructure....I believe it was a trip where he took his bus with him. By the way, whatever happened to that bus?

[NEMDF]

Somehow 0bama will milk this tonight to say that they have shovel-ready projects for infrastructure that need to be funded.

[Nepeta]

By the way, whatever happened to that bus?

There were 2 of those busses. I wondered what became of them myself.

This is NOT the bridge he used as a backdrop. That bridge carries I-75 and I-71 over the Ohio River; it has an upper and lower deck and it is falling apart.

[Steven Scharf]

“Even though it was an accident it won’t stop libs from hooting that we need new infrastructure.”

Ding, ding, ding!

MSNBC just did a story on the bridge collapse and brought in a guest who then talked about the crumbling US infrastructure. He implied that this bridge collapse becuase we are not spending enough money!

[mylife]

So predictable.

[Thank You Rush]

“”There were 2 of those busses. I wondered what became of them myself.””

Do you suppose they were repossessed? Maybe they are in China now.

We need to know where they are and what is planned for them. That was a heck of a lot of money ($2.2M)to spend for a few PR feel good moments. Nothing shows up in a search. Most everything goes back to 2011 when they were bought..

Think I’ll send a note to my congressman........

[Thank You Rush]

“”crumbling US infrastructure””

That was what the stimulus funds were for that Biden was supposed to account for.....don’t think he ever did. Big surprise.

[Nepeta]

That was a heck of a lot of money ($2.2M)to spend for a few PR feel good moments.

Plus the fuel costs of operating a 747 on very short hops so Obama could pretend he was traveling the countryside in a bus...classic Obama-waste for the sake of appearances.

The busses were built in Canada...perhaps Canada repossessed them.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Nepeta]

Southbound I-75 is open again in Cincinnati, with all 4 lanes flowing freely. This was not predicted, but it is a good surprise.