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Pittsburgh allegedly has more bridges than any other city in the world. One collapsed last January.[0] I had driven over and walked under it many times. An unco

Pittsburgh allegedly has more bridges than any other city in the world. One collapsed last January.[0] I had driven over and walked under it many times. An uncomfortable number of other bridges in the city are in poor repair.[1] If one of the bigger ones over one of the rivers here collapse, it will be a tragedy of similar magnitude to your nightmare. [0] https://triblive.com/local/frick-park-bridge-collapses-natural-gas-smell-in-area/ https://triblive.com/local/frick-park-bridge-collapses-natur... [1] https://archive.ph/5u4de https://archive.ph/5u4de

sbaiddn 4y ago
Ya but the bigger the bridge the better the monitoring. I used to use one that fell daily, but its not a bridge your average Yinzer crosses even on a yearly basis. It just doesn't really go anywhere except a couple thousand homes. The big bridges on the three rivers, on the other hand! It seems to me that they're always always under repair.
- anodyne33 4y ago
  There's A LOT more traffic across the Fern Hollow bridge than if the end destination were a couple of thousand homes. Average daily traffic ca. 2005 was 14.5k vehicles including transit bus routes with articulated buses that nominally carry 70+ at capacity. At rush hour I've been on those buses and they're regularly SRO.