Bridge Collapse in Pittsburgh

[Gardo]

I crossed that bridge many times while my daughter was at Pitt
Who knew

 

[Lef T]

I'm glad to read that no lives were lost.

 

[ale.istotle]

Perhaps you missed the sarcasm.

Yes. I missed it entirely.

 

[P Thought]

I'm sorry the bridge collapsed, but glad no one died. Past that, it sounds very inconvenient and expensive all the way around.

 

[Telekarster]

The dirt you see is the ground under the bridge where it pulled away from the road surface. The bridge itself is concrete on steel frame. The fact that the decking held together probably saved lives. It looks like the structure under one end failed and the deck dropped in one piece to the ravine floor. If the deck had split mid-span this could have been worse.

Ah.... ok thanks for that explanation. Wow.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

That bridge is crazy high. I looked at the google maps from the walking path below and it's a long drop. Glad no fatalities and glad the kids were not in buses at the time.

Can someone post a link to the bridge on google maps? Thanks!

 

[ale.istotle]

Can someone post a link to the bridge on google maps? Thanks!

https://www.google.com/maps/place/P...f915a15aa21b34!8m2!3d40.4406248!4d-79.9958864

 

[BigDaddyLH]

https://www.google.com/maps/place/P...f915a15aa21b34!8m2!3d40.4406248!4d-79.9958864

Ahhh --- my grandparents lived in Regent Square, right around there, on one of those brick-paved streets. (Checks) still paved like that: https://goo.gl/maps/kAXP7pyEdNrFTroC7

 

[old wrench]

Thankfully no one got killed.

This certainly puts an exclamation point on the dire need for repairs and up-grades to our infrastructure.

I was kid back in the 1950's when our interstate highway system was being built - I can't imagine the ensuing years have been any easier on the bridges than they been on me

.

 

[old soul]

Aging infrastructure and a rapidly growing population is a bad mix

 

[Stanford Guitar]

Time to bring back the Civilian Conservation Corps.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

Aging infrastructure and a rapidly growing population is a bad mix

I assume population growth isn't specifically directed at Pittsburgh.

https://www.biggestuscities.com/city/pittsburgh-pennsylvania

 

[old soul]

I assume population growth isn't specifically directed at Pittsburgh.

https://www.biggestuscities.com/city/pittsburgh-pennsylvania

Not Pittsburgh specifically

 

[billy logan]

Pittsburgh resident Jane Dudley took this photo of the bridge collapse [edit - 2 blocks from her house. She could hear a severed natural gas pipe roaring ]

edit - btw - I don't whether the natural gas pipe is in this photo.

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

Ahhh --- my grandparents lived in Regent Square, right around there, on one of those brick-paved streets. (Checks) still paved like that: https://goo.gl/maps/kAXP7pyEdNrFTroC7

Your grandparents lived one block away from where I play music with my musical mentor most weeks during normal times. And, I think I might know the people who live there now. If not that exact house, one of the immediate neighbors.

That is my favorite neighborhood in all of Pittsburgh.

 

[ChicknPickn]

I never thought this sort of thing, like the building collapse in Florida recently, would ever happen in the US.

 

[telestratosonic]

I live near it too. My street is closed and they were evacuating homes because of a natural gas leak caused by the collapse. No one has knocked on my door, so I think all is good now. I didn't hear the collapse, but I was awoken this morning by the sound of sirens.

Friends came to my house last night and drove that bridge. I'm grateful no one was killed, but it seems like it'll be a while before that road is reopened.

Scary and a close call! I haven't been to Pittsburgh since 1970. Can't remember if I crossed that bridge.

 

[Bones]

I assume population growth isn't specifically directed at Pittsburgh.

https://www.biggestuscities.com/city/pittsburgh-pennsylvania

I assumed he was talking about how fat everyone has gotten, these poor bridges have to bear the brunt of our rapidly increasing waistlines.

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

To make matters worse, they were planning on replacing the bridge on the Parkway that spans this same ravine. This was supposed to happen next year. But the main detour off the Parkway would have been on Pittsburgh surface streets and over this bridge that just collapsed. I don't see how they will be able to replace the Parkway bridge with this one out of commission. The Parkway is part of the Interstate, and there are truly few options to get over this ravine other than this collapsed bridge.

 

[unixfish]

I assumed he was talking about how fat everyone has gotten, these poor bridges have to bear the brunt of our rapidly increasing waistlines. View attachment 945486

Should I be happy that I'm above average?