Saturday, August 04, 2007
Photos of the I-35 bridge
From the MnDOT website. Bridge inspection reports are available there, search for 9340, the bridge's official name. A lot of the language is technical jargon I don't understand, but at a few things are clear.
- Inspections assumed replacement as a reasonable option.
- MnDOT's statement that the recommendation to reinforce support with plates was rejected out of concerns "that drilling holes to attach the steel plates would weaken the bridge" is a load of crap: cracks in support beams are remidied by boring holes around the crack.
- Gov. Pawlenty's call for immediate inspections of similarly bridges was nothing but a PR move. The I-35 bridge and all Minnesota bridges are inspected annually as evidenced by the plain fact MnDot has all the inspections publicly available through its website. These pictures are from the 2006 inspection report.
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Labels: I-35 bridge, Minneapolis bridge, photos
// posted by Erik @ 8/04/2007 10:33:00 PM
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Gotta love the republican care of infrastructure. Kind of makes me nervous, living in Portland. Most of the bridges to downtown are in decent shape, but a couple are rather scary - notably the one that restricts traffic because we can't afford to fix it. They don't close it or tear it out, rather they just pretend it will be fine, if we limit the traffic and size of vehicles.
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