Bridge 9340

[skywords]

This bridge was garbage and they knew it, money was preventing this thing from being repaired or replaced. Our infastructure is crumbling while our gold is being shipped you know where.

Here's proof they differed repairs on the bridge in 2006 because of $ and decided to dab a little paint and make seem what it aint. The deck beams were corroded and known cracks in the girders were shrugged off in 2001 with a magical load cell test. The first doc is the deferring of repairs and the second is a fatugue study on that bridge in 2001.

This project is currently in the 2006-2008 STIP in SFY 2006, identified as 2783-9340D and includes bridge repairs and bridge painting. Meto District has determined that it would be more efficient to remove the bridge repair element and do all painting of bridges in the same project limits. Bridge 9340 was deleted from the project and bridges 27887 and 27888 will no longer be repaired but will be painted instead. These bridges will be repaired in SFY 2007, which still has $5.4M available in the Bridge Improvement Program for additional bridge work. Bridges 27889 and 27999 have also been added to the project, so all bridges in the project area will be painted at the same time. The project will need a traffic control plan; therefore, the SP number has been changed from a bridge SP# to a Trunk Highway SP#.

Why would they add another billion pounds of asphalt on top of a iffy structure?

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:C1cVFIQBY3AJ:www.oim.dot.state.mn.us/excel/Trunk%2520Hwy%2520Admin%2520Amendments%25202006%2520(2006-2008%2520STIP).xls+bridge+9340&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

www.lrrb.gen.mn.us/pdf/200110.pdf

 

[Alpine Bob]

This is starting to sound like the LEVIES in Louisiana, they knew they were bad, had the money from Uncle Sam, but never fixed anything. I'd bet if Hughy Long was still around, the levies would have been fixed.

 

[skywords]

It wasn't a billion # of asphalt but rock.

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 5 — Trucks carrying tens of thousands of pounds of crushed stone were parked on the Interstate 35W bridge, and more stone was sitting on the deck when the bridge collapsed, investigators said Sunday, raising suspicions that the added weight of materials intended for repairs may have played a role in the bridge failure.

I sure hope some US steel contractors can get some work from these bridges.

 

[mikephillips]

Repair of bridges, roads, water and so on aren't "sexy" projects. And we're all responsible for that. We allow politicians to spend our money on the flashy things like stadiums. Here in Cincinnati we built 2 new stadiums for the Reds and Bengals which, with interest, will cost about 1.6 billion dollars by the time it's all done. At the same time we're looking for federal and state funds for a riverfront park, museum operating expenses, etc. at the same time we know that there's problems with the I71/75 bridge crossing the Ohio, sewer capacity, water distribution getting old and general roads. Fixing all these things isn't as cool as having 2 shiny stadiums on the river, but would be of more value in the future. and every city and every state is the same way.