35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis

[Hexis]

CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/01/bri...pse/index.html

BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6927113.stm

My own images: http://www.fatpipe.org/~photo/35W_Bridge/

[FactsOfLife]

man what a mess, prayers for all those affected.

[gimp]

Wow. That's terrible.

[trevorjk]

i hate to say it this way... but you took some amazing pictures. where you there when it happened? or are you going to university next to the bridge?

[Hexis]

I live very close to the bridge-that-was. I was also just leaving home for a dinner when I heard, so I grabbed my camera and a few lenses and stopped by. Judging by the time stamps, I got there about 30 min after it collapsed. The police angrily shooed me (and a large group of onlookers) out of the area a few minute after I started taking pictures. I didn't stay long since I was on my way to a dinner gathering.

[MedicDVG]

I always figured it would be the Lake Street or Somo bridges.. I always got creeped out crossing those.

[kosmo]

My brothers car is somewhere on the bridge. Hes fine though. Thats what he gets for declining to come to the barbecue.

/terrorists
//wait noes, it was teh governments

[SCpoloRicker]

//wait noes, it was teh governments

NEVAR FORGET!!

[iambored]

that's the first thing I thought of when I saw this.

[RobOpel]

that's the first thing I thought of when I saw this.

Likewise.

I was planning on responding to this with 'in before the conspiracy theories' but that might not be applicable anymore.

[Swampy]

This going to make me seconded guess the next time I go over Milwaukee's Hoen bridge.

[SCpoloRicker]

Swampy is clearly an agent of MK ULTRA/Mossad/Bildenburg/Illuminati secret world government.

[rifleman wi]

true that dude, my aunt drove over that section of the bridge 5 seconds before it fell, she was freaking out for a few months after that..

This going to make me seconded guess the next time I go over Milwaukee's Hoen bridge.

[trevorjk]

ill still go to concerts under the Hoen bridge and since ill do that, i guess ill drive over it to

[Swampy]

true that dude, my aunt drove over that section of the bridge 5 seconds before it fell, she was freaking out for a few months after that..

Yeah but I drive a landscape rig for work, a F550(Truck 9,000 lbs) and a 32ft tandem (about 4,500lbs) with a Toro 325 with a 72in deck (2,500lbs) and a Toro 580 (6,000 lbs with a 16ft deck) going to our super duper mechanic (non-dealership) over that (Hoen) bridge. Sry it scares me with cement trucks, with a WI weight of 25 ton, and oversized/overload trucks going across that bridge.

oh by the way.

Having a CDL, and dealing with weight issues. AO Engineers and Architects. Do you think those pressures (of weight) in a slowed rush hour traffic (due to a lane closer) a simple span bridge at the max 200yds could handle those loads. I'd say local law enforcement and Dept of Public Works is at fault (Not cause of surface repairs but of not dealing with a high volume of traffic including heavy trucks) that should have been detoured to another bridge.