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Back in the 80s the city of SF encouraged people to walk in the GG Bridge to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Almost destroyed the bridge and killed everyone on
by pyuser583 6y ago
Back in the 80s the city of SF encouraged people to walk in the GG Bridge to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Almost destroyed the bridge and killed everyone on it.
- throwaway_kufu 6y agoI feel like I remember that, but might be confusing it with another bridge incident. I remember there being elephants in the celebration, significant “waves” in the bridge and some pretty serious injuries...but again I may be confusing it with another incident. Edit: watched video, GG flattened out. Not sure what I am remembering and maybe mixing up a few bridge “disasters” and collapses into one.
- brabel 6y agoI looked it up and it seems that's not what happened. _While there were some injuries, there were no fatalities and the bridge was not damaged._ _The weight of the 300,000 people flattened the normally arched roadbed, although bridge engineers later said there was never any real danger._ Source: https://www.sfgate.com/local-donotuse/article/Golden-Gate-bridge-walk-1987-anniversary-disaster-13896571.php#taboola-7 https://www.sfgate.com/local-donotuse/article/Golden-Gate-br...
- redis_mlc 6y ago> The weight of the 300,000 people I live down the street from the GG ... Why would you risk the lives of 300,000 people on a single ancient bridge near salt water? That's insane.