It is crazy to think how quickly things can happen when you are driving especially on a freeway at a high rate of speed, and then throw in slick winter conditions.
Drivers and pedestrians go over bridges all the time. However, one man in Minnesota took it to new heights and literally walked over the 94-foot high steel arches.
The Highway 53 relocation project is just about finished. Minnesota's tallest bridge opened overnight, and this morning we took our first drive across. I had my wife video the drive starting from where the route change begins heading south out of Virginia, MN.
A bridge along a major thoroughfare in Green Bay is closed after a 3-foot deep sag developed overnight. The Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge along Interstate 43 carries 40,000 cars a day across the Fox River. Built in 1980, the framework resembles the Bong Memorial Bridge that crosses the Saint Louis River in the Twin Ports.
Transportation officials say the Blatnik Bridge is among 7,795 bridges across the country that has been classified as "fracture critical" or "structurally deficient".
Like it does most summers, the Oliver Bridge is scheduled for some daytime closures so that routine maintenance and inspections can be carried out. The closure will happen daily Monday August 13th through Friday August 17th - from 7:30 AM to 4 PM...