B5C
24th May 2013, 07:56
I-5 is the major highway connecting Seattle, WA & Vancouver, BC. Well the bridge that goes over the Skagit River just collapsed tonight. Luckily there was no deaths, but only three injuries.
http://media.komonews.com/images/130522_bridge_collapse_6a.jpg
http://media.komonews.com/images/130523_bridge_collapse_ra_9639.jpg
http://media.komonews.com/images/130522_bridge_collapse_g_9.jpg
This is what being reporting about the bridge.
The bridge was built in 1955 and has a sufficiency rating of 57.4 out of 100, according to federal records. That is well below the statewide average rating of 80, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data, but 759 bridges in the state have a lower sufficiency score.
According to a 2012 Skagit County Public Works Department, 42 of the county's 108 bridges that are 50 years or older. The document says eight of the bridges are more than 70 years old and two are over 80.
Washington state was given a C in the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2013 infrastructure report card and a C- when it came to the state's bridges. The group said more than a quarter of Washington's 7,840 bridges are considered structurally deficient of functionally obsolete.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Cars-bodies-in-Skagit-River-after-I-5-Bridge-collapse--208760201.htmlNow maybe our citizens in our nation will stop supporting low taxes and cutting our road budgets.
One of my friends from college just cross over that bridge just mere two mins before the collapse.
Good thing that there are three alternative routes. At 11 PM at night traffic was good. I got a good look passing by.
From the radio. It seems a overloaded semi hit one or two of the beams before the section collapse.
http://media.komonews.com/images/130522_bridge_collapse_6a.jpg
http://media.komonews.com/images/130523_bridge_collapse_ra_9639.jpg
http://media.komonews.com/images/130522_bridge_collapse_g_9.jpg
This is what being reporting about the bridge.
The bridge was built in 1955 and has a sufficiency rating of 57.4 out of 100, according to federal records. That is well below the statewide average rating of 80, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data, but 759 bridges in the state have a lower sufficiency score.
According to a 2012 Skagit County Public Works Department, 42 of the county's 108 bridges that are 50 years or older. The document says eight of the bridges are more than 70 years old and two are over 80.
Washington state was given a C in the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2013 infrastructure report card and a C- when it came to the state's bridges. The group said more than a quarter of Washington's 7,840 bridges are considered structurally deficient of functionally obsolete.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Cars-bodies-in-Skagit-River-after-I-5-Bridge-collapse--208760201.htmlNow maybe our citizens in our nation will stop supporting low taxes and cutting our road budgets.
One of my friends from college just cross over that bridge just mere two mins before the collapse.
Good thing that there are three alternative routes. At 11 PM at night traffic was good. I got a good look passing by.
From the radio. It seems a overloaded semi hit one or two of the beams before the section collapse.