Major bridge collapse in Baltimore

If you'd like your own chunk of vintage steel deck grating from the Mackinac Bridge, it can be yours for the low, low price of just $620. We'll even throw in some lead paint!

https://www.govdeals.com/asset/387/8676

"Section of original steel grating from the Mackinac Bridge deck. Selling 5 individual, identical pieces of grating separately. Pieces are approximately 5 1/2 feet X 38 feet and 5 inches deep. Condition is used with corrosion and
section loss appropriate to steel that is 60 years old. Each piece weighs about 2 tons.

Grating was originally coated with lead based paint. Much of this is gone, but Buyer will have to sign a "Hold Harmless agreement" related to the lead paintand the structural condition of the grating."

 

What, they thought it would be too tacky to sell the Yugo they had to fish out of the water?

 

The entire bridge isn't supposed to collapse in five seconds with that contact at that speed. That structure was on really shaky ground. I can understand losing a piece of the bridge, but the whole damn thing collapsed in the time it takes to blink.

 

If it rests on two support pillars and you take away one, that is the inevitable result.

 

"....we want the cheapest price, that's the American Way!!, wait its being built where?? And shipped by who?? That's un-American!! Wait, price goes up 50% if we build it in the USA? Who wants to pay that??, its all a hoax anyways"

 

Haven’t lived in Cincinnati for a few years, but for the 20 years I lived down there about 19 were spent hearing about how outdated and decrepit the Brent Spence Bridge is. Spanning over the Ohio River and carrying I-71 and I-75, I was always a little nervous driving over that POS.

It’s now six years since I left Cincy. They STILL haven’t done shit to that bridge.

 

Hello, 911? I'd like to report a murder.

 

We're now up to 25 percent of the funding needed to build a new bridge to Cape Cod replacing the Sagamore, the most used of the two bridges connecting us to the mainland over the Cape Cod Canal. It was opened in 1935, and according to the Army Corps of Engineers, which maintains it, has about 4-5 years left before it just has to be replaced. Maybe I better invest in a kayak.

 

Trumpists are giddy. This will impact the economy. To even greater delight, it occurred in a majority-Black city in a blue state. They can't control themselves.

 

My island got this bad boy a few years ago. The view from the top coming onto the island is magnificent.



It doesn't have near the character of our old swing bridge, though. The new bridge construction is in the background.

 

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