Close up of collapsed section:
This is the best view of the collapsed section:
This is the bridge intact. The part that collapsed is the section to the left-- see the small building NEXT TO the collapsed section in the first picture as reference:
Close up of collapsed section:
This is the best view of the collapsed section:
This is the bridge intact. The part that collapsed is the section to the left-- see the small building NEXT TO the collapsed section in the first picture as reference:
It could just be poor maintenance or faulty engineering but, I’m blaming Muslims until proven otherwise.
It was sabotaged by jihadi’s. They planted bombs. If that turns out not to be true I will retract my statement.
When a bridge fails it seems to me that it would not fail in such a catastrophic manner. One end or the other but not he length of the span. The center pylons everything is gone. It looks, to my untrained eye that it was blown up
I don’t recall ever seeing a bridge built over buildings before. Italy has earthquakes so it doesn’t make any sense to do so.
Prayers for all involved.
Interesting. Like the I35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, MN there are trains and a river underneath the bridge. In the case of the I35W bridge there are (or were at the time) several images of many construction vehicles parked on one side of the bridge and some intensive structural work and large deep chunks of the bridge that were excavated.
I wonder if the trains have an impact on the long term stability of the footings/pillars.