Wonder who designed that bridge.
It is an unholy traffic mess. The alternate routes are few.
I see it is a racist bridge.
The good news is it is now open for commercial maritime traffic.
Expect the Democrats to announce that due to bridge work, the GOP convention cannot go on in Jacksonville...
Misleading headline! OF COURSE! DRAMA!
The whole bridge isn’t going to “collapse”. It has multiple spans and likely only one is in question.
If a bridge (or SECTION of said bridge) is “at risk of an imminent collapse,” can it just be “repaired”?
It seems to me that “cracks” in a bridge, serious enough to claim it is “at risk of an imminent collapse,” needs more than a little caulk (repair).
More like replace an entire section. They don’t make Band Aids that big.
OR ... the seriousness of the problem is overstated.
24 years ago? Sounds like the Lawton Chiles administration should take credit.
Grew up in Stuart. The original Roosevelt Bridge, if memory serves, was actually two side by side drawbridges. The newer one was built several years after I’d left. I think I drove over it once or twice when I visited. Did not like how Stuart changed. In the 70s and early 80s, it was still a sleepy Florida paradise. But post 1990, it was like Miami had melted northward and absorbed it.
That being said, I am pleased that a Sunshine Skyway situation didn’t happen. Yikes.
Is the warranty still good?
Not knowing anything more, I would suspect rusted rebar was used along with substandard concrete or incorrectly set. I’ve seen bridges in Pinellas County FL built with rusted rebar. Huge rust streaks pouring down the concrete sides. The marine salt environment is very hard on bridges. When rebar rusts it expands and cracks the concrete. Once the rebar is gone the concrete loses strength.
Crack under a bridge. Figures. It’s Florida. There’s crack everywhere in that state.
I live about 40 miles from this bridge and have driven over it many times. It looks like such a nice bridge.
When I lived in Burlington Washington a few years ago the bridge there collapsed but it was an old one. So they had to fix it very quickly because it is the only north-south freeway in Washington state.
Hopefully this one can be fixed it’s just quickly