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That's a common topic here, yes, though honestly I rarely hear about a bridge collapse. I don't actually remember the last time I saw news of a bridge or overpa
by _heimdall 3y ago
That's a common topic here, yes, though honestly I rarely hear about a bridge collapse. I don't actually remember the last time I saw news of a bridge or overpass collapse that wasn't causes by damage like this.
Makes me want to find the data now. I don't actually known if our bridges are too old, poorly maintained and falling apart early, or if the whole topic is just herd mentality and politics.
- Hamuko 3y ago>I don't actually remember the last time I saw news of a bridge or overpass collapse that wasn't causes by damage like this. Fern Hollow Bridge Mk. II?
- themaninthedark 3y agoIf we count pedestrian overpasses as part of overpass; FIU pedestrian overpass.
- dredmorbius 3y agoAmong the more spectacular recent US bridge failures was the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, which failed during rush hour with bumper-to-bumper traffic with a loss of 13 lives on 1 August 2007: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge> There's a list of many more failures at Wikpedia, though international in scope: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures> There are a number of ship-bridge collisions listed, as well as fuel-tanker explosions, which seems to be a surprisingly common failure mode. Also numerous failures in China, though how much of that is simply a scale effect I can't say.