Posted on 06/11/2023 9:07:19 AM PDT by texas booster
Here’s a dumb question, but...
That looks like at most 75 feet by 125 feet, including both directions. A 12-inch phlange I-beam costs $200 per foot, installed. Let’s say we put solid I-beams all the way across the entire bridge. Why not rebuild the entire bridge with a mass of pure I-beams. You could get that bridge passable again with $2 million in a matter of a few days.
Long range traffic should take Alternative I95/NJ Turnpike.
Former Bay Area resident here.
The point is that’s WAY more than a 9K-gallon truck. The planes were fueled up for a flight to California. That meant that they were at least 1/3 full. That’s 21,000 gallons.
That’s the exit I took to get to a friend’s house when I visited her in 2018. Holy crap!
Nah, he’ll just destroy the rest of that stretch because it’s racist . . . or something.
A few years ago the same thing happened in Oakland CA.
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It’s happened a few times. There was a similar incident west of Toronto on the 401..... March 25, 1986 at the James Snow Parkway in Milton. Two trucks collided and one was a tanker carrying about 14,000 gallons of gas. The driver was killed and the driver of the other truck was convicted of drunk driving. The overpass didn’t come down at the time but it was damaged enough that it was demolished and rebuilt
Good news for Taggert Transcontinental
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I remember hearing that during the aftermath of 9/11
You could get that bridge passable again with $2 million in a matter of a few days.
You have obviously never dealt with contracting officers in government.
Start with the City of Philadelphia, County of Philadelphia, the hordes of lesser borough regulators, WOTUS and the EPA (still smarting from another Supreme Court loss), plus (probably including Jersey Boys) anyone evenly remotely connected to I95 from Florida to Maine.
Out infrastructure, in many places, is 4th world level. Just embarrassing.
Drove south through there about 10 am yesterday. 😲
I don't know the percentage, but from the airport up through Northeast Philadelphia to Bucks County, there are a number of exits off I-95 that have an overpass above it.
One story concrete and steel rebar structure collapses after vehicle fire erupts under structure.
Prolly does the same thing a hundred stories in the air, I bet.
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A very similar incident involving a tanker occurred a couple of years ago in the Harrisburg area at the junction of I-81 and US 322.
It took many months to reconstruct the affected ramp.
One cannot help but wonder if these "events" at critical junctions aren't part of the relentless assymetric warfare being wage against us.
I would hate to be the guy at fault. If it is an individual, the loss will exceed his policy limits really quick. Then it is on him.
Expect some similar “accident” disrupting Acela within the week.
We are at war, dammit...wake up!
Hmmm...
Those danged Iranian drones really have a targeting problem...
Probably launched from the new Cuban chicom base...
Wonder what it was supposed to hit...
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Has Joe Briben been in Philadelphia lately?
Remember the time he went to Pittsburgh to promote his infrastructure pork fest and a bridge there just happened to collapse?
I wonder if this is related to the fires up in The Great White North?
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