Posted on 01/10/2016 6:53:47 PM PST by Hieronymus
A newly constructed bridge in northern Ontario has heaved apart, indefinitely closing the Trans-Canada highway — the only road connecting Eastern and Western Canada.
The Nipigon River Bridge has been closed for "an indefinite time due to mechanical issues," according to the Ontario Provincial Police. The bridge remains open to pedestrian traffic.
The west side of the bridge has pulled away from the abutment connecting it to the river bank's edge, lifting up about 60 centimetres.
As a result, police have shut down Highways 11 and 17 at the bridge, which is located about 100 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, Ont.
The estimated duration of the closure is "uncertain" with police noting it could be "possibly days."
"It's not just us. It's all of Canada that has a problem right now," Nipigon Mayor Richard Harvey told CBC News. "This is the one place in Canada where there is only one road, one bridge across the country." ======================================== Harvey added that police quickly started to stop people heading out on the Trans-Canada Highway at larger Ontario centres like Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay and Terrace Bay, telling them to turn back or use an alternate route through the U.S.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
Well I drove across it several times after they repaired it. I’d say that indicated a survival of 1989, wouldn’t you? 1989 - 2014??? Doesn’t much matter now that they just blew it up and it’s layin on the bottom of SF Bay!!!
No. Structural damage is cumulative. What it would survive in 1989 it would not if hit with the same energy. Moreover, the Hayward Fault is capable of releasing at least twenty times more energy at 1/20th of the distance to the Loma Prieta quake.
Got it now?
I got that without a doubt!!!
Now the dumb thing is getting ready to fall apart in an even far more dramatic and destructive way, it seems to me...
Correct. The expensive construction delays Schwarzenegger needlessly imposed for his buddy Warren Buffett so that Peter Kiewitt would get the contract were indeed criminal (Buffett is on the Kiewitt BOD). Neither was Kiewitt as competent as Bechtel, who was stiffed for 35,000 engineering hours when they were forced to turn over the drawings to Kiewitt. It was a ripoff of a California company by the California governor. He should have gone to jail.
I'll never forget their whole family being given the same free ride down the American River in a rubber raft so they could be indoctrinated in each eddy pool by Friends of the River, Inc.
And unduly influenced to establish the Sierra Nevada CONservancy along with that stupid AB, or was it SB32 cap and trade Global Warming nonsense Bill by the rest of the EnvironMental Communutty...
But you knew how I felt about all that without my having to tell you. Right? Right!!!
Looks like some 6” x 8” timbers and plywood would do the trick. As long as the wind doesn’t blow again.
Interesting that it went up and wrecked things.
“Hey - our contract specifically said the bridge would not fall down! It didn’t!!”
Which bridge is that? I left CA in the mid 80’s and that has been built since then...
http://www.northernontariobusiness.com/featured-profiles/2015/12/Nipigon-River-Bridge.aspx Here is some background on the project.
Not Canada.
It's sort of weird to realize that there's almost nothing but trees, lakes, and rocks north of that highway all the way to the North Pole.
With the cracked (Chinese) bolts that thing is a death trap.
I carry the same card.
Quando omni flunkus moritati
Wow! That sure brought back a "load" of memories!!! (sigh)
Mother Nature is more powerful then man.
Picked up a bridge with a gust of wind.
I’ve seen that, we have several Railroad bridges where this happens. Just too funny!
Suspension cables too tight?
If they want to slow vehicles down put a toll gate on that end of the bridge! Use it to fund repairs and or a new bridge!
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