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To: elcid1970
The current Tacoma Narrows bridge is built like an M-1 tank, as the first one should have been.

There have been two Tacoma Narrows bridges since the one that fell. The replacement bridge was built in 1950. In 2007 an additional bridge was opened so that each bridge now handles one direction.

I haven't driven on the new bridge but I remember once driving across the replacement bridge in a high wind. The vertical cables were all vibrating like guitar strings.

It didn't feel like an M1 tank then and it brought home how the unique challenges of that location must have had a lot to do with the collapse of the 1940 bridge.

77 posted on 09/29/2010 10:29:46 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded

There must be some really wicked winds in the Tacoma Narrows.


78 posted on 09/30/2010 3:06:14 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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