The Overland Bridge is Falling Down, My Fair Lady

[mtraininjax]

I remember hearing that a smaller piece fell onto Hendricks a couple years ago.  The bridge is deteriorating quickly. It needs to be fixed, but it's not going to be cheap or easy.  We need to stop requiring rail to pay for itself, but giving roadways a free pass in terms of cost.

Well, you could look for employment here on the BESTSIDE.... 

Happier that FDOT fixed the Fuller Warren/10/95 split before this stretch. Had it been reversed, the old Fuller Warren would have fallen in the river by now.

You are going to have to pay 172,000 motorists daily to pry their hands from their steering wheels. They love to drive their cars so much that 95 has become abysmal with all the concrete repairs. You can crack your teeth on the stretch between Emerson and University.

[Captain Zissou]

I remember hearing that a smaller piece fell onto Hendricks a couple years ago.  The bridge is deteriorating quickly. It needs to be fixed, but it's not going to be cheap or easy.  We need to stop requiring rail to pay for itself, but giving roadways a free pass in terms of cost.

Well, you could look for employment here on the BESTSIDE.... 

If you know of any Finance or Real Estate opportunities, I'm all ears.  I'm looking into some things in Brooklyn, but I like where I am currently, even if I don't like where I am geographically.

[andyfk]

I was stopped in one lane of the bridge last week while traffic was moving by at speed in adjacent lanes.  I sear the bridge deck was bouncing up and down a half inch.  It was sort of unnerving knowing how bad of shae the thing is in!

I'm pretty sure that's common.  Go 'park' on the Dames Point span - you'll swear you're on a trampoline.

from MO's DOT, an interesting explaination.
http://www.modotblog.com/2012/06/bridges-bounce.html

as long as it's not "Galloping Gerty" http://youtu.be/j-zczJXSxnw

[Ocklawaha]

Yes it's the original span from the 50s.  If I remember right I think it originally bridged a rail yard that served the southbank shipyards.

You are correct, in fact the rail yards pre dated the shipyards. When the city 'grew up' the yards were moved to Bowden. The engineers for the bridges recently studied them to try and figure out why carbonization was eating the structures. They surmised that heavy traffic allowed a carbon trickle to get into the soil below. When I told them this is where the coal trains from the old Mayport Coal Terminal were switched into trains for points south and that there is probably several tons of coal in the soil, it was an epiphany moment, quite funny actually.