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    It Turns Out Your Fear Of Bridges Is Totally Justified

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    Image of billybobster billybobster
    11/10/09

    In reply to It Turns Out Your Fear Of Bridges Is Totally Justified
    To be fair here... the above picture is of a 2007 incident in the Oakland side Bay Bridge approaches in which a tanker truck with 8,600 gallons of unleaded crashed and burned on the lower level on ramp. Thusly melting the upper level.

    Even a spanking new bridge ain't handling that.

    Genuine old bridge collapses aside, the greatest danger by far on the road is the collapse in the functioning of the neurons in the cranium of the bozos driving around you.
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    Image of rigidjunkie rigidjunkie
    11/10/09

    In reply to It Turns Out Your Fear Of Bridges Is Totally Justified
    Grain of salt please, I work in the transportation industry and the terms functionally obsolete and structurally deficient are used to scare people. These bridges are safe to drive across, but should be repaired soon or it will be come much more expensive to fix them. The obsolete one is especially funny as it relates to the original amount of traffic the bridge was designed to have crossing it. Guess what almost every inch of road is functionally obsolete the day it is opened to the public.

    So relax and if you are really scared just drive faster so you are on the bridges for a shorter amount of time :) #bridges
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    Image of dculberson dculberson
    11/10/09

    @rigidjunkie: Exactly!! "Functionally obsolete" has nothing to do with safety. I can't even figure out why they lump them together - other than to build an impressive, scary sounding number and headline. #bridges
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    11/10/09

    @dculberson: oh, no . . . it's the appendix of bridges. #bridges
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    11/10/09

    In reply to It Turns Out Your Fear Of Bridges Is Totally Justified
    The state with the largest number of deficient/obsolete bridges is Texas with a whopping 9,564 of them.

    in our defense -- we're friggin' huge. and also we just ride our horses everywhere. #bridges
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    Image of Ryanrule Ryanrule
    11/10/09

    @Nick: No, its the repubs you keep electing. Its not like all the oil money should be taxed or anything. Those people worked hard to wait until their parents died so they could inherit the businesses, and they deserve their yachts and lear jets. #bridges
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    11/10/09

    @Ryanrule: well, i don't know friends who "waited" per se . . . but i know some really creative people. #bridges
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/10/09

    In reply to It Turns Out Your Fear Of Bridges Is Totally Justified
    Texas needs more vados. Take bridges out of the equation all together.

    /fondly remembers the Car & Driver Baja roadtrip during which they found one test car didn't float #bridges
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/10/09

    In reply to It Turns Out Your Fear Of Bridges Is Totally Justified
    A few years back, Detroit freaked me out with not only freeway holes with re-bar showing which could swallow the 275/70/22.5's we were on, but also because of the rot, not rust, on the bridge girders.

    Honestly, it could have been a third-world country.

    Hold on. Michigan...I'm being redundant. #bridges
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    11/10/09

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    Forget the bridges, the whole of MDOT is obsolete. Old. And useless.

    Just please put her out of the misery. #bridges
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    11/10/09

    In reply to It Turns Out Your Fear Of Bridges Is Totally Justified
    I'm trying to get everyone to start calling the new Bay Bridge S-curve the "Bay Bridge chicane". #bridges
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    Image of Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm
    11/10/09

    In reply to It Turns Out Your Fear Of Bridges Is Totally Justified
    This is just another good reason why the personal use automobile needs to go away. It costs too much to support the infrastructure.

    If only there was a large pool of unemployed people and a government intent on spending its way out of a recession. #bridges
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    Image of ShraddhaBear ShraddhaBear
    11/10/09

    @Tiberiuswise: Man o man, are you on the wrong forum.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    11/10/09

    @ShraddhaBear: yeah, the school bus drivers union site is two stops down. #bridges
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    Image of theart theart
    11/10/09

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    We just had one up here shut down for being in imminent danger of collapse:
    [www.burlingtonfreepress.com] #bridges
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    Image of powermatic powermatic
    11/10/09

    @theart: Tough deal about the bridge, but the comments are a riot. One guy's blaming local farmers because they should have been inspecting the span's structural integrity while 'driving slowly across on tractors pulling overweight loads'. My god, as if the Weight of Responsibility isn't already crushing those poor souls-in the space of two days, they've not only been enlisted to transform inner Detroit into a Garden of Eden, but now they're being asked to acquire Engineering degrees and travel the countryside-slowly, on tractors, while pulling 'test loads'-to save our Nation's infrastructure.

    Never has a Desperate Nation asked So Much, from So Few. #bridges
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    Image of theart theart
    11/10/09

    @powermatic: Not to mention the article saying specifically that the latest deficiencies were found in an underwater inspection of the concrete piers. #bridges
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    11/10/09

    In reply to It Turns Out Your Fear Of Bridges Is Totally Justified
    Knowing the state of NYC bridges, I can't even imagine what could be worse in these places. Scary. #bridges
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    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    11/10/09

    In reply to It Turns Out Your Fear Of Bridges Is Totally Justified
    Go PA! You can do it! Say it with me like you believe it and your dreams may come true. "We're number 1... we're number 1!" #bridges
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    Image of Franzouse Franzouse
    11/10/09

    In reply to It Turns Out Your Fear Of Bridges Is Totally Justified
    I know there are some Washingtonians on this site so I'll just ask: how's the Alaskan Way Viaduct?
    /ducks #bridges
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