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Posted on 06/11/2023 7:02:54 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel
Interstate 95, the main roadway between the East Coast's two largest cities, New York City and Philadelphia, will be closed for months after a tanker fire caused a section to collapse, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Sunday.
An elevated section of northbound lanes in northeast Philadelphia collapsed, trapping the tanker truck and whoever was inside beneath 500 tons of concrete, steel and rubble, about 6:20 a.m., Shapiro said at a news conference.
He called the scene “a remarkably devastating site.”
Corresponding elevated southbound lanes were found to lack structural integrity, prompting closure of the entire freeway, he said.
No deaths or injuries were reported, but first responders had yet to get to the tanker truck or any possible occupants, officials said. The fire was still smoldering but otherwise under control, they said.
Why is it terrible that an oil tanker is driving off 95 at an intersection?
I heard it was a crash, or just caught fire.
Otherwise, what is the big deal?
In some ways that means longer time to build what is being newly envisioned reather than just building back what was there. Now what is built must interface with planned new features but out of sequene. The bonus is mulitople Civil Contractors already under contract. Just a Change Order.
Trump would declare a national disaster, send in the Seabees, and have a temporary bridge in place in a week.
Smacks of terrorism.
Same thing happened after the huge earthquake in ‘94...an overpass on a major SoCal freeway collapsed...the contractor was given carte blanche to get the overpass rebuilt as fast as possible, and was given incentives for each day the work was done before a set deadline. They worked 24-7, nonstop from demolition to reopening the freeway. It was only a few weeks, whereas normally such work would take years.
even the santa monica freeway, the busiest road in the world, only took 2 months and change to reopen after the northridge quake, and people were provided detours and alternate transportation almost immediately after the disaster. yes i lived in riverside at the time.
nobody has more red tape than caltrans.
no excuses. there should be immediate action to get detour(s) established and a crash program to get at least part of that road functional.
I don’t see an enviromental impact study on your list, or a survey to see if any native Americans were buried in that general vicinity a few thousand years ago.
It may have even been a sacred site to some now extinct tribe. I demand that the courts enjoin any work until a full study can be done and remediation takes place.
Lets be new Urbanists and rip the whole thing out and put in bike lanes.
If the driver was gay, trans, or an illegal we’ll never find out who it was...
The thugs in DOJ and FBI would be helping Mayor Pete cover up the issue while setting goons and thugs on anyone asking questions.
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Trusting, no?
The Phildelphia segment of I-95 was one of the last to be completed.
I see you have lived in places that have extremist city/transportation planners!
I have heard several different accounts. I cannot verify any of them yet.
Oil trucks go underneath bridges all the time. That isn't a big deal at all.
The crash-and-catch-fire part that destroys a major transportation artery is a big deal. And with that much damage, the question that must be asked is, "was it an accident?"
If there is a dashcam video, it will provide a definitive answer to that question. Even witness testimony must exist to answer that question. It was a busy highway and lots of people saw what happened. What did they see?
We haven't heard yet.
Something tells me you’re involved in contracting ... not sure what it is, but I’m certain 😆
So am I.
And it has grown tedious. I’m looking to get out. Time for something completely different.
Do what I did years ago, got out of construction and went into the LTL trucking business - collecting a paycheck is a whole lot easier, and without the headaches.
“Why was an oil tanker traveling underneath I-95?”
The original interstate specification said that the interstate was never to be above ground except when crossing rivers or crossing another interstate.
found to lack structural integrity
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Interesting way to describe a collapse
And just what purpose did this serve? Yes, this small section is possibly majorly disrupted, but that is actually a drop in the bucket of transport. What did this truck really destroy? What was it near that was so important?
Too much paranoia here.
Are you an engineer? This is common terminology.
They are talking about the northbound while the southbound is the one that collapsed.
The tanker was oil. Exactly how it caught fire I don’t know, but if it burned under the bridges, that will be hot, and probably has weakened the one further away, while the one it was directly under collapsed.
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