People died in that failure. both decks fell. If the cross links just below them had let go the whole span would have collapsed. It wouldn't have taken much more for that to happen.
I guess it depends upon what you call "survived."
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.
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This time of year, I’d suggest going via Orlando. And no one in this part of Canada (which the detours do effect) would think you crazy for doing so.
If you are likely to be hit with all sorts of rapid temperature shifts, with the ground and the air cooling at different rates, and major gusts accompanying the air masses causing the shifts, I imagine that the calculations for all possible scenarios would be quite complex, with the cables introducing an additional level of complexity.
I suspect that it was a poor design choice for the location’s weather.
Back in my cab driving days, one of our regular customers was the nephew of the designer of the Tacoma Narrows bridge. A man of some years now himself, he told me that his uncle was very proud of that bridge. They didn’t know about the wind harmonics of a suspension bridge that long at the time, so they had some learning to do there. But, look how much abuse that structure took before it failed. Remember that it took several hours of that before collapsing.
LOL
I think you’re right...
“What took you so long, Charles?”
“Oh, I got hung up on the detour at the bridge.”
“Really? How did you get that sun tan?”
Heck, I would use the bridge if they could secure that left side and level out that lip. Its not as bad as if it were this!
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2818818560/tt0076740?ref_=tt_pv_md_1
And Omaha will be happy for the traffic!
I was looking at Google maps, and it listed three different routes from Winnipeg to Toronto: the all Canadian route, one through northern Minnesota-Wisconsin, and one through Minneapolis-Chicago-Sarnia. All routes were close in time (around 20 hours), but the route through Minneapolis-Chicago-Sarnia was the featured route and the shortest time-wise.
Yeah. And the bonus is, they can stop in for a Runza!
(It’s a Nebraska thing.)
Hay wait a minute... Don't forget it was more than the two "Brown" mayors at each end of that abortion!!! Repellican Gubernatorial Dipstick Arnoiled Schwartzenrenegger was on that "band wagon" too!!!
I refuse to cross that corrupt, corroding, colossal monument to stupidity that even supersedes the Auburn Dam that was abandoned on the American River after being 2/3rds completed!!!
This is what a citizen/taxpayer gets when you replace demented Demonicrats with celebrity Repellicans. Trump is also exactly that!!!
Toronto (and all of south-western Ontario) is actually a bit off the beaten path and, from a Canadian perspective, on the way to nowhere. The TransCanada is about 4 hours north of Toronto.
Montreal, and points along the TransCanada to the northwest, are the ones that will be affected.
a span dropped and killed a guy driving across. the photo made all the newspapers.
BZZZZT!!!! Wrongo! "That old bridge" had failed in a mere 6.9 earthquake with the epicenter fifty miles away. It lies immediately adjacent to the Hayward Fault, which is capable of a magnitude 8.0 or worse. You won't find an engineer anywhere who would have stood behind that cantilever span. It had to be replaced.
People died in that failure. both decks fell. If the cross links just below them had let go the whole span would have collapsed. It wouldn't have taken much more for that to happen.
I guess it depends upon what you call "survived."
Liberals don't get black eyes.
(And if they do, it's all conservatives fault anyway)
If you think that the Ontario PC’s stand a chance of giving anyone a black eye, you haven’t been in the province for the last 20 years.
No it didn’t A section of the top deck fell down on the lower deck and several pepole died driving into the hole.
Looks as if the support cables shrank due to the cold. Maybe an inherent drawback in a cable stayed bridge in the cold.
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