Posted on 11/19/2013 2:43:31 PM PST by DManA
Southbound Interstate 35 in Duluth was closed Monday, and will remain closed for at least a week or more after bridge inspectors found a deteriorated piling on the roadway.
The damaged piling is on one of 38 supports, or piers, for the low bridge that runs from Mesaba Avenue west to near 21st Avenue West.
The piling that supports the pier “was so corroded we could see through it,” Duane Hill, chief district engineer for the Minnesota Department of Transportation, told the News Tribune.
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Now they tell us the road is unsafe.
It is so discouraging. It seems our government is incapable of doing ANYTHING right.
what the heck I have been on that stretch several times the pillars were so corroded that you could see through them. something just does not sound right with the construction of the roads. been going to North Dakota on US2.
You would have thought someone might have caught that as they were COMPLETELY REBUILDING THE DAMN FREEWAY.
I thought Clown Prince nobama through his TARP (or was it his “stimulus”) trillions had fixed all our bridges and so forth? Was the Liar-in-Chief lieing?????? Who would have thought such a thing?
I recently heard someone refer to Hillary! as, ‘a pre-existing condition.’ *SNORT*
Didn’t MN have a bridge actually COLLAPSE a few years back?
This is not a neglected stretch of road. They just rebuilt it.
The piling that supports the pier “was so corroded we could see through it,” Duane Hill, chief district engineer for the Minnesota Department of Transportation, told the News Tribune.
And they just now discovered a problem? What kind of inspection schedule were they following?
This is what I’m saying. They put a completely new concrete deck on that foundation. Two years ago.
I guess they were planning to inspect it during the investigation of it's collapse...
I guess they were planning to inspect it during the investigation of it’s collapse...
Oh! I guess they are following the same plan as the demonrats with healthcare.
visited your fine city this spriing and drove the north shore and all over
quite beautiful
On your Harley?
Even though the collapsed bridge was built in 1967, Pawlenty was governor at the time...so, of course, it was all his fault.
Only stands to reason, then, that the blame for this one will fall on the current (goofy) Dim governor.
Right?
Relax, Dianna didn’t mean that. Besides, if Pawlenty has to take the blame for a bridge collapse then he gets credit for rebuilding it in record time.
actually no.
We drove our R.V. towing a Subaru outback.
From Duluth we took route 2 across to Montana and Yellowstone then back.
Pretty awesome seeing sunflowers as far as the eye can see.
every morning I hear about a ramp somewhere in the metro closed due to control arms malfunctioning.
this will last for days. how hard is it to remove the arm or just keep it bolted in the upright position?
is MNDOT hiring all idiots now?
We’ll be told it’s Cheney’s fault and Halliburton road salt.
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