Who Broke The Bridge?

[MoKelly]

Yes it is still there but is a full casino now. Dog racing is being phased out, lasting another year or two

Thanks!

MoKelly

 

[the old grind]

Be sure too toss in an irrelevant snipe to keep a thread alive and OT.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I knew there was a casino there.

Sounds like wheeling island in WV, used to be (maybe still is?) a dog track but now a casino.
Wheeling suspension bridge was recently closed because people keep ignoring the size and load limit signs.

 

[Diggin It]

Wheeling suspension bridge was recently closed because people keep ignoring the size and load limit signs.

Few years back, we had a bridge that was declared citical. They had a new one under construction, but it would be several more months. They put a 3 on limit on the old one ... basically a large pickup truck as long as it was empty. My Taurus wagon with a 4x8 trailer and a few bags of concrete was close to the limit. Even the small UPS and FedEx vans could not use it.

They had marked state police units sitting at one end or the other 24 hours a day stopping anyone who was over size or weight.

Something like two months after the new one opened and before the old one could be demolished, it shifted on the footers at one end and dropped about 6 feet.

 

[flyerdan]

Was rolling through fb and saw this posting about a cracked TN bridge, and figured it was unlikely that there were two separate bridges involved.
Basically, it says that a man kayaking under it in 2016 took a picture, and upon hearing about the bridge recently, dug out the pic and took a closer look, and there it was, broken five years ago.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I missed seeing his picture in the article.

 

[flyerdan]

It is in the AP article they linked to, this should be it.

 

[Diggin It]

Was rolling through fb and saw this posting about a cracked TN bridge, and figured it was unlikely that there were two separate bridges involved.

And yet, about a 100 miles away on US63/412 over the Spring River at Ravenden, AR,

Another Arkansas bridge shut down after significant damage found

A U.S. 63/412 bridge in Ravenden, Ark. was shut down after inspectors found a broken pin and a broken hangar on the bridge, according to ArDOT.

www.5newsonline.com

U.S. 63 span closes for repairs after inspection finds damage

Though it appears to have been reopened already:

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[dodge man]

I’ve posted this before. I drove over this bridge in a pickup a few days before this pic. I wish I could remember what it was posted, but I paused to do the math on the pickup I was driving, it was something like 4or 5 tons.

 

[ArlyA]

Practical engineering did a good video of this members failure.