Pittsburgh bridge collapse | fast response video - 3D unwrap
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- Vital cross bracing was removed and the structure was mortally rusted through. The structural composition of the bridge is explained.
See the steel structure used a special steel that was not painted and rusted on purpose.
This bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh on Jan 28 at 6:40am. With zero fatalities. Located on Forbes Avenue over the Fern Hollow Creek in Frick Park. The bridge was listed as poor condition on the DOT database. The bridge was built in 1971. Structural steel illustrated.
The steel type on this bridge rusted intentionally to form a corrosion barrier. A structural brace had snapped off and this is shown in this video. - Věda a technologie
Cor ten steel needs multiple wet and dry cycles to form the protective layer to stop rusting. With a stream underneath and all the trees around it might have never stopped rusting. Also the pvc drain was not the original construction. The original drain probably rusted away and put water on the steel. The temperature was near 0 degrees that morning, if the expansion joints were not working the bridge could have contracted 3”
You used too many words just to say that the bridge rotted over time until it just collapsed. It's called The Law of Parsimony.
Fascinating! How shocking to learn that the cross-bracing was removed. Anyone who has ever built an IKEA bookcase knows that the cross bracing provided by the backing is what makes it stand up. Unbelievable. Very well done and straight to the point. Thank you!
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@@thecollapseofchamplaintowe7199 Hi there! What group do you run? Yes, I monitor all the CTS witness interviews and update as required. The link is still the same…
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It was also replaced with cables, which is not noted here.
@@jaydee-222 Thank you for clarifying!
City of Pittsburgh bridge maintenance policy: As bridges fall apart just remove broken pieces and pretend they never there. What can possibly go wrong?
Ouch 🤕
for real lol, so stupid how they just removed the cross bracing and visually did nothing whatsoever to fix or replace anything
@@aa_0n711 they did half ass fix it with the cables. I'm shocked they held as long as they did.
@@msbernie1970 yeah those cables didn't look like they did shit
@@aa_0n711 Those cables are actually quite strong. The problem is they only have strength in tension, while the solid crossbeams provide strength in both tension and compression. With just the cables and the remaining single pair of upper crossbeams, any compression (inward) loading between the two columns on that side would go to those upper crossbeams alone.
It's too early to know for sure, but it would be very surprising if the removal of those lower crossbeams were not a contributing factor (if not the primary factor) in the collapse. With how badly those lower crossbeams were corroded back in 2018, the upper crossbeams also likely had significant corrosion damage. Maybe one of those upper crossbeams finally failed on the night of the collapse, leaving nothing left to handle the compression load on that side.
I left Pittsburgh just a few months ago and lived right near that bridge. I drove over it with my family all the time, and walked under it almost every day as that is part of Frick Park. I always got a vague unsteady feeling walking under such a large bridge, but I thought authorities, engineers, etc knew what they were doing. As others have said, it's a miracle no one was killed.
Never, ever give comfort to the thought that someone else (an engineer, inspector, President, etc) knows or knew what they were doing when it’s your or your families life at stake!!!! Never give that trust to anyone else other than yourself!! Always have in the back of your head an escape plan in place!
I drove on the bridge 12 hours before it collapsed. If there hadn’t been a 2 hour delay for schools that day, there could have been multiple school buses on the bridge at the time of collapse. It’s horrifying.
I lived at 575 s braddock ave, for 12 years, over, under almost daily when I walked the fur baby or rode my bike . Thank God nobody died.
@@audre5225 Same! Glad I worked from home that morning.
Lived on Whitney ave until Jan this year… took morning walks under this bridge multiple times a week! Crazy
What's sad is here in Pa. we have one of the highest taxes and the worst roads and bridges to drive on!
Cor-Ten steel, all the rage in the Seventies, forms an oxide coating that prevents further rusting. HOWEVER, when exposed to salt, the oxide coating is stripped away and the steel rusts like any other mild steel.
Are you talking about all the de-icing salt? . It makes sense the overhang prevented salt collecting on the steel beams directly below the deck. But seems like deicing salt really did a lot of damage lower down the structure. The base of the legs and bracing were like paper.
@@Mike-Bell You should see what it does to cars
@@noth1ng5id when you look at the picture pvc pipe connected to a drain that had or was leaking we wound up having to paint near deck joints and other areas exposed to road salt
@@noth1ng5id yes. In PA our cars would last a lot longer without road salt
New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia is also made of Cor-Ten.
I rode my bicycle across it a few years back to and from work in Oakland. The last time I biked across it was back in November 2021. I remember just a few months back, looking down from the top, It was difficult to see the bottom, It looked like a bottomless pit. It is a miracle there were no fatalities. These bridges definitely need more frequent inspection, especially those that are corroded and weak. Regardless of how often they are used. If they are not structurally safe, they need to be repaired or replaced. It is so unfortunate so often the all mighty $ speaks above peoples lives in this world
It was inspected in Sept of 2021..
The inspections weren't the problem, the lack of action by our lovely government was the problem. They knew.
State officials stole 4.2 billion from the collected gas tax and “repurposed it” but PA law states the collected gas tax must go to infrastructure repair. There was a full report from state engineers telling these idiot democ 🐀 s what was going to happen to the bridge if it wasnt repaired and the IGNORED it. They should all be locked up!
@@CH-pv2rz If they actually did repairs that money was intended for, where would they get the money to embezzle or buy votes with?
This bridge is packed with backed up traffic every day, sometimes with multiple buses on it. It's amazing there was so little traffic when it collapsed.
It was intentional
It's inconceivable how you can frequently attribute a bridge collapse to easily traceable factors, chiefly maintenance related. Something that was before the eyes of everyone: workers, inspectors even the people passing by probably for so long that even Google captured a bridge in a state it almost certainly wasn't built to stand. And yet it did... until it gave way.
Word
State officials stole 4.2 billion from the collected gas tax and “repurposed it” but PA law states the collected gas tax must go to infrastructure repair. There was a full report from state engineers telling these idiot democ 🐀 s what was going to happen to the bridge if it wasnt repaired and they IGNORED it. They should all be locked up!
@@CH-pv2rz I contacted my state legislators this morning asking them to support legislation that requires a yearly per capita fee on residents without a local police force who utilize PSP for patrols. That money should not be coming out of the Motor License Fund. My municipality has a police force and my local taxes pay for it. Those residents should also be required to fund police even if the force that patrols their area is PSP.
Gas tax and registration fees should go to roads and bridges, not to pay for police.
I can name at least five other bridges in Pittsburgh that you can see are structurally compromised by rusting steel or failing concrete
Amazing work on that animation. You folks did a hell of a lot of work
Live up the street from this bridge. I ran outside thinking there was a meteor strike from the sound of it.
Thanks gives a better look we cross this bridge everyday
*crossed
Me too
This bridge collapse is criminal neglegence, plain and simple. Yet there have been zero investigative reports of who is responsible for putting the public in danger. Seems like local media could be in the back pocket of city or state...
Thanks though for your well done explanation of how the bridge collapsed.
Let's get to why the public was placed on this dangerous bridge what is clearly a long long time.
I crossed this bridge every day growing up. My old man still does (I guess did). Really hard to believe no one was killed
As a Pediatric Nurse who accompanies a student who goes to Children's Institute of Squirrel Hill we rode it back and forth every day.Back to the day of collapse there was no school due to snow and ice.I crossed it Thursday afternoon at 315pm.lol. It was day before collapse. I guess I am not ready for death yet.Thank God no one was hurt. It made strange noises 😳 all the time and I looked under it and thought how beautiful it was but didn't want to see the bottom up close.
Had it not been a frigid, snowy morning, it would have been much worse. Even an hour later and it would have been an epic disaster as the morning rush would have been well under way.
I live in pittsuburgh, and there is photographic evidence that the supports on the ground were rusted clean through and they put up banded cable cross braces to "supplement them."
It wasn't a lack of funding it was a lack of maintenance due to misappropriation of funds that caused this bridge to collapse.
It was announced today, February 7th, that infrastructure funds were diverted to “other areas” to the tune of billions in Pennsylvania
Exactly! State officials stole 4.2 billion from the collected gas tax and “repurposed it” but PA law states the collected gas tax must go to infrastructure repair. There was a full report from state engineers telling these idiot democ 🐀 s what was going to happen to the bridge if it wasnt repaired and the IGNORED it. They should all be locked up!
I live a few blocks away from this bridge, just went over it the day before it collapsed. Scary shit. Anyways, amazing visualization on what probably happened.
I wouldn't say snapped out of place but simply rotted or rusted out as there was so little steel left holding it in in place. One can only wonder how many more death traps like this are out there.
The question has to be asked, if the bridge was inspected in September why were these issues not discovered, and if they were, why was this bridge not shut down?
You make a valid point. Deciding if a structure is in imminent risk of collapse is not an exact science and a tough task. A more cautious approach would likely lead to 3 other bridges closed in Pittsburgh alone. From the 2018 damage you could have made the case for shutting it down then. And it still had 3 more years life in it.
I have sympathy for the people who have to make these safety evaluations.
Because someone decided to spend $16 million on streetlights & the state diverted billions for repairs to fund state police.
Vote them all out !
@@Mike-Bell uhm...... which three bridges?
Folks as a structural engineer I can tell you that removing the cross bracing and replacing it with cables is a perfectly acceptable repair if done correctly. X-bracing members carry only tension forces, so replacing them with cables provides the same general structural behavior. It is possible that when the original bracing failed, load redistribution occurred which placed unintended lateral load on the columns, which induced bending stresses about their minor axes. If the new cables were not tensioned to pull the structure back into its original geometry, then these new stresses would have become permanent and could have contributed to the buckling of the columns.
In fairness this is pretty much every bridge in Pittsburgh and surrounding areas. I live 30 minutes away from Pittsburgh and the 2 main bridges here look like crap but theres no other way to travel without them so you just gotta go across
Thanks, this is very illuminating. I didn't know it was Cor-Ten steel, but the corrosion visible was extreme. Very nice graphics.
You are welcome Barbara. Cor-ten steel does not stop rusting if exposed to salt. Road I suspect was the problem.
Too bad that 7% of the infustructure bill actually goes to infustructure.
Too bad that the 4 billion dollar gas tax that is meant for roads and bridges was redistributed to other areas. Too bad that in 2020 their was 104 million in unpaid tolls in PA. Too bad that the mayor of Pittsburgh knew in September of 2021 that the bridge was given a POOR rating in 2 of the 3 inspections points. But hey, no one died right.
Too bad fox news isn't always right
State officials stole 4.2 billion from the collected gas tax and “repurposed it” but PA law states the collected gas tax must go to infrastructure repair. There was a full report from state engineers telling these idiot democ 🐀 s what was going to happen to the bridge if it wasnt repaired and the IGNORED it. They should all be locked up!
@@expertbrody9914 he’s right though. I think it’s actually lower than that. Read it, find out for yourself. Don’t take our word for it.
@@TruthRISING2024 Ah yes so that's why it recieved 2/3 of the votes because obviously it's going to magic land right? No maybe 7% isn't infrastructure but 93% you're out of your brainwashed mind.
Would the cables that replaced the cross members change your animation?
The cables were definitely adding stability. But they did not resist buckling mid way on the legs and they were working at a less effective angle. The road deck seems relatively straight which suggests the legs didnt buckle sideways and it dropped straight down. It may not have been the missing cross brace as the cause and it was the base of the legs that gave in.
@@Mike-Bell Base of the legs? A great place to plant explosive charges!
@@larrytruth-warrior4952 With the amount of rust on the bottom of the support legs, a heavy hammer would do the trick.
You missed the fact that they added steel cable crossbraces after the original metal ones failed. Bridge still collapsed but you showed everything else, figured that would be in your video also.
You are right. In the haste to this uploaded asap I forgot to show the cables. Will show in the next video
That bridge is three blocks from my house. Its incredible to think something like that is so real.
Wow I use that bridge often when in Pittsburgh my son is buried in cemetery on that same street ! So glad no one died or seriously injured 🌞
Homewood cemetery
That bridge collapsing has made me late to school everyday lol, I live 3 blocks away and took it 2 times every day.
The Emsworth Port Authority Bridge in Allegheny County started to fail and corrode badly several years after it was build many years ago. It too was CorTen steel. It was closed and had to be rebuild several years ago because of the on going bad corrosion issues that had gotten worse when /CorTen steel is exposed to road salt. It was bad. Any CorTen bridges should replaced immediately!
Can you tell when the cross bracing was removed?
The braces were removed a couple of months after the Twitter foto of Dec 2018.
how much did that bus weigh? Was that the normal route for that size bus?
44,000 pounds I heard in a video (22 tons). Didn't break the weight limit of 26 tons.
Why wasn't the lower x brace repaired or replaced?
There was temporary cabling added. Its likely the findings will determine the failure was due to the lower part of the legs crumbling due to the severe rust and not the removed cross brace. The leg supports couldn’t be repaired. For replacement of the entire bridge was the solution…. No money for that because it was redirected to policing.
OMG that’s horrible. I have not even heard about this. Was it recently ? Was there a train ? (Assuming so) Any fatalities . The animation is fantastic by the way !!
Dang that gave me shivers for obs reasons
Hi Kellie. It happened early Friday morning. 28th Jan. It was snowing and school was cancelled so only about 5 cars and a bus on it at the time. Zero fatalities.
@@Mike-Bell 😫. Thank you . It seems more money needs to be allocated for infrastructure. 🙏 Tweeted you out.
@@thecollapseofchamplaintowe7199 they need to spend the money that they already have on infrastructure. Bridges and roads kind of stuff. Not expanding internet access and bike lanes and other left wing dreams. Once they use the first trillion properly, maybe we will let them have some more. They failed to budget for maintenance all these year, and should have been planning for timely replacements. No, every budget skips infrastructure and goes right to social agendas.
@@thecollapseofchamplaintowe7199 And lots and lots of folks with deep pockets to pay for it all.
@@bob-who-must-not-be-named8522 BINGO!! Repairing bridges doesn't get votes like hand-out money does. You want to get re-elected you just pay people directly and blame bridge failures on the previous administration.
At our power plant there are Clean Condensate Tanks to supply clean water to the boilers. There is a sample system with the water from the CST to a sample point used to test the water. There is a large filter in line on the sample line. The filter would clog up with fly ash and algae and the filter would need to be replaced. The instrument techs didn't like changing that filter so they removed the filter and the filter canister from the line. In their mind they fixed the problem. X brace rusts through and breaks so the solution is to just remove the whole X brace.
Amazing animation!!
Thanks lab 🐶
Hi Mike! I am a Civil Engineering student at Lehigh University and am doing research on this bridge collapse. I was wondering if you could possibly supply me with this model and any other key information you may have?
Hi Dara
The model is entirely modeled from photos. Google maps for the plan dimensions. Proprtions are carefully determined off phots. I did not have access to drawings but I’m guessing its about 90% accurate.
I’m happy to let you have the model (obj format?) but I doubt it accurate enough for your purposes.
Other information I have is all that Is available online.
It seems the structural design was sound. And basically certain that the ongoing rust from deicing salt of cor-ten steel is primary to this collapse. Do you agree?
@@Mike-Bell I have not had the chance to do enough research to say one way or the other but am hoping this model can give me a better idea. Thanks so much. I will let you know.
Is there any way for you to direct message the file to me?
@@darahecht9654 CZcams doesn’t have DM. Email me on tadpolefarm@gmail.com
I have an updated model for the no 2 video I’m about to upload. I’ll send you the newest one. Let me know what file formats you can work with. The model is made in blender which is 3d animation software.
That cross brace was corroded right through, and this video did not show the cables that were added in place of the braces, which did not provide the same level of stability that the steel cross members offered. The cold temperatures could have further tightened those cables that could have pulled the legs right out from under the bridge.
Mike, any idea on why bridge collapses seem to be so frequent in the USA?
Despite being the richest country Americans don’t spend enough on maintenance. Maintenance is not sexy.
Bridges aren't even painted regularly there let alone repaired when needed. Politicians will tell you taxes need to be raised to fix the problem.
Wow! So well explained
Thank you 🙏
Maybe, some day, I'll find out where this was! The aerial pictures don't show me anything and I have no idea where Fern Hollow is.
This bridge collapse was completely avoidable. The state had started a gas tax to pay for infrastructure repair. They have so far collected $4.5 billion from the people.
News broke a couple days ago that none of this money has been spent on infrastructure, rather it’s been spent on a host of other unrelated things.
well I think we all feel that in Pittsburgh the Lower Hill project will have 'artsy' parking areas and tree equity. So a few collapsing bridges is a small price to pay for 'artsy'
That bridge span is one foot longer than the number of bridges in Pgh.
The bottom beam where it met the cement foundation looked completely rusted through. I used to live by a viaduct that crossed a busy street and whenever I passed underneath the viaduct I'd look up and see daylight through completely rusted out support beams and was horrified. I wondered how it was allowed to carry train traffic. Fortunately the viaduct was rebuilt and no tragedy occurred.
Great vid mike, ty
On 2/12/02 I witnessed the 165 ton steel truss collapse on the 13th cantilever at the new, David L. Lawrence convention center! One man killed, two injured!
That and the geological followup event, was the water main break in philly, a 48" main. These things happen every winter from Maine to ohio.
Can we have an overview of why the pretensioned pedestrian bridge in Florida collapsed a few years ago? The media does its hysteria dance for a few weeks, then NIST l does its glacially paced thing for who knows how many years, then there's one or two more stores about lawsuits, then nobody except the families directly affected remember or care about it anymore and it's forgotten.
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IIRC AvE You Tube did a good analysis of it at the time.
So....... What does this actually explain. I think it simply leads to more speculation. Yes the cross brace snapped, but it was removed and replaced with cabling. Did this have an effect on the structural integrity, or was it a valid repair? Amazing how many people seem to be bridge "experts" after something like this happens.
Spoken like another armchair bridge expert. Quit whining
Bridge collapses. Ppl are rattled and they take comfort in understanding the bridge a little better.
@@Mike-Bell Really? I am certainly no armchair bridge expert and don't claim to be. I also don't put out videos leading to useless speculation.
@@jeffgrimm8887 quit going through life complaining and criticising. People will avoid you and think you are a knob.
@@Mike-Bell Your videos showed up in my feed and I commented on them, you didnt like it. Oh well.
There wasn't a whole lot holding up that bridge to begin with, and there was very little cross bracing to give it rigidity. The solution to the corroded braces was to remove them? Where's the logic in that? Of course road salt would increase corrosion, and they should have planned for that.
You are 100% correct but there is just one problem and its money ...
The cor ten from US Steel. Additional corrosion? Doubtful. Steel fatigue due to axle weights, more traffic than designed for. Fatigue cycles. Steel Failure in weld effected zone, brittle, There is a large triangular opening in the transverse beam. The upside down auto is to its left in photos. The top corner appears ragged. There is no steel framing for replacement of the hole as there is on the square hole to its left. Suggest compare to earlier current photos. Did somebody use a torch up there? Or some C4? Co-incidence that prez arrived a few hours later.
It looks very much like de-icing salt ate away at the legs. Cor-ten oxidised layer will dissolve in salt. I prepared to say for certain this was a corrosion failure.
@@Mike-Bell bridge deck drain locations? Would have had been using the legs as tube supports. Perhaps there was drain tubes originally. The cables replacing the angle iron at the lower legs was a sin.
@@larselder874 There was a pvc pipe in the picture most likely connected to a drain drain looks like it was a retrofit when the old pipe rusted out.
@@josepheomelia9951 composite bridges here do have steel pipe drains and storm drains on the deck, each side. This bridge is one of six in the area using cor-ten. I do not know about their conditions. Thank you.
Strange how that big empty accordion bus was on the bridge at time of collapse and it was too heavy for the bridge. Nobody seems to care. Nothing to see here.
Highest gas tax in the nation and still we have the worst bridges in the country
Philidelphia I heard once had that and people just stopped buying sodas in restaurants due to the high prices. Lower taxes are good enough politicians!
Still surreal 🙏. Please keep the victims in our thoughts and or pray.
It’s amazing! Why would anyone think that the remedy for a broken cross brace would be to remove it completely?🤪
You didn't see the big rubber bands they put in place at a cost that couldn't even imagine.
The U.S. STEEL BUILDING HEADQUARTERS. In downtown Pittsburgh is made completely of core-10 steel also.
Fortunately deicing road salt/brine doesn’t flow up hill so the building should be fine.
@@Mike-Bell look at the new river gorge bridge in Wv. It's a national park and is the longest steel span bridge in the western hemisphere, and is made of core-ten steel.
This bridge collapse has RUINED my commute let me tell ya
Hello from the Burgh!
Hello there!
Living in Pittsburgh since 2002 originally from Serbia,
As kid watched bunch of Hollywood movies where everyone is super rich no one works big houses beautiful houses 😂
The first day in Pittsburgh was July 12, 2002... From airport straight to Squirrel Hill where we stayed at first and WE ALL FELT WE TIME TRAVELED 200 YEARS BACKWARDS !!
RED AND BLACK DIRTY OLD BRICKS CHEAP HOUSES MADE OF WOOD roads are like 50+ years behind Europe,, potholes everywhere, nothing more funny than seeing a Warning road sign saying ROUGH ROAD 😂😂😂 entire PA has rough roads.
Still 1700s bricks and stones and railroad tracks underneath just repaved with asphalt.
And that Liberty Tunnel they have been repairing it since i moved here and now when you drive in it you feel the car is wobbly and that should be big concern since it feels like the ground has shifted a little but who cares they will fix the ventilation Fans that will take care of moisture and rust that's been building up in the last 100 years.
So many bridges but for some reason they refused to connect Hazelwood Ave --- Becks Run Rd
Or Forbes Ave with 2nd Ave through (S Neville st, Boundary st, Saline st)
Traveling Beechwood Blvd right after Monitor st should be an exit Ramp to Forward ave that way you don't have to loop around through stop signs creating more confusion and traffic.
The City is expanding more cars more people and instead of opening up more Lanes they are reducing with bike Lanes 😂
Interesting perspective. Reality can be a shock. Civilisation is hard work and isn’t cheap.
It's still a great and underrated City. With problems like every city has.
I actually live in the Pittsburgh area.
the salt water on the road runs down and the salt water mist created by car tires flinging the tiny droplets and making them airborne drifts and gets on everything in the area. When the salt water gets on the metal it starts to rust. on a hot summer day the water evaporates but the salt precipitates and stays on the rusty metal. The rust gets deep and starts to crack off like skin flakes comming off and the salt is trapped under the salt flakes. basically once the salt is on the metal it sticks to it like a salinated goo unless you pressure wash it numerous times. I know this because I own a salting truck and I see how pesky that salt is to remove. its harder to remove once the rust in on the metal because the rust creates cracks in the surface where the salt can hide. You can wash it a hundred times and there is always a spot that turns white after the water evaporates on a hot day.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
used to hang under it. was in garbage condition. luckily its only utility was connecting the wealthiest part of pittsburgh to clay tennis courts and lawn bowling.
never heard of lawn bowling before, this that the horshoe game?
Who the F*CK signs off the inspection on these bridges?
America's infrastructure in a bridge, we are definitely headed on an upwards trajectory, stay the course!
Amazing no one got killed
Great video!
Our government rocks!
They do such an outstanding job for us!!
We agree! Like governments across the world except Scandinavia and Germany
after repairs they forgot to slap it twice and say "it ain't goin nowhere"
That particular area in P-burgh is full of roads and bridges that are crumbling. It would be difficult for public officials to know which to prioritize for repair/replacement. Couple that with the fact that this area is a haven for social programs and you can see why the money wasn't used for infrastructure in a very long time. Oh, yes, they did some cosmetic repairs here and there such as patching potholes, etc. But a ride on Forbes Ave will reveal quite a bit of open decay in the roadways. The amount of money needed to catch up would be astronomical. There will likely be more collapses in the future.
WRONG… every bridge has a yearly report on it. Quit covering for corrupt govt… State officials stole 4.2 billion from the collected gas tax and “repurposed it” but PA law states the collected gas tax must go to infrastructure repair. There was a full report from state engineers telling these idiot democ 🐀 s what was going to happen to the bridge if it wasnt repaired and the IGNORED it. They should all be locked up!
@@CH-pv2rz who is paying you to comment this everywhere?
@@samszotkowski
He isn't paid, this is the youtube smh. Nobody is lobbying on the youtube, would be wasteful.
I know the guy who was driving the bus if you ever wanna talk to him mike
Oh nice. I have a question for him. When he felt the bridge dropping did he keep on the gas in hope of getting to solid land because he was near the end. Or did he hit the brakes. And how far did the bus roll back into the wall? If you want to give me his contact details I can ask him directly.
@@Mike-Bell
Of course the hollow promises. Sorry you never were given a response, that would have been interesting to know. But the video was a great simulation, thx for sharing. Was the driver hurt?
How many other bridges are in this state of disrepair ? How many bridges would have been repaired it the govt had not used $4billion from gas tax supposed to be used to repair roads and bridges, on other things?
I know. Just remove the parts that broke. Looks good to me!
So.... Who all is being fired and/or going to jail over this?
😂 you making a joke right?!
Salt is your problem. it destroys steel and concrete. It would be cheaper for all communities if winter tires were used instead of salt.
Great animation but it's missing an important detail, I spilled a plate of spaghetti on the bridge deck late last October (I got spooked).
Boomer says lol 😆
Badly made bridge. BAdly maintained! Shoulda been replaced ten years ago! The people traveling that bridge daily and only one time are at the mercy of the construction company who made that bridge. I’m so utterly grateful no one was killed. Thanks be to God n his mercy!
That was a very close call, could have been so much worse. I'm left wondering if the use of chemical de-icing agents had anything to do with the deterioration. We here support President Bidens infrastructure plans.
It’s because pa does not give a fuck about our bridges I’ve painted a lot of them and there are so many failing in horrible shape but not fixed. Fix our infrastructure why pay taxes
Great stuff... meanwhile the NTSB will pick their nose for 9 months trying to figure out the obvious...
Inspector: looks like the cross brace is coming off
Engineer: well looks like we need to finish what it started
Inspector: won't that be dangero...
Engineer: SHUT UP DIMWIT
No hate towards engineers, I am one(not civil) and I know that we take a detailed record about every failure and use it to help advance our field
the state legislators should be held accountable for not using the gasoline tax for roads and bridges, they hired cops???
I'm no bridge expert, but this bridge looks badly designed. I'd never trust one with such flimsy-looking supports.
When you’re given money to fix a bridge, do NOT spend it on bike lanes, lanes for self-driving cars and green energy initiatives !!!! (money allocated for repair in 2016)
Am from Pittsburgh sum scary stuff
Politicians only act when there is a crisis. So hopefully some action after this.
Worked for mercer county bridge department years ago. Truthfully I'm surprised this dont happen more often. Was a lot of bridges that needed closed years ago that were in awful shape that couldnt be closed, and still habe not been replaced or even fixed. We would lower the weight limit and nobody payed attention. Is a metal grate bridge going to shenango dam that one side is closed, and has brush growing out of it yet the one side stays open. It's nice 2.4 billion dollars of our gas tax money was diverted to state cops.
So some powers that be decided some braces came loose let's just get rid of them because maybe the people that designed that bride did not know what they were doing and it was cheaper to remove the braces rather than repair
The Allegheny County Pork Authority........
Luckily no deaths!
Already!
Already what?
@@Mike-Bell
Fast response to animate. Good Job I mean.
@@42luke93 Oh thanks. Follow up will be posted tommorow …
@@Mike-Bell
Np, nice another update. Look forward to it.
Fact, all of Allegheny County school districts had a 2 hour delay on Friday morning due to snow. At 7 :00 am ,there would have been school busses on that bridge. Had there not have been a delay, this collapse would have been deadly. Odd that this happened the same day that Biden was due to speak about infrastructure.
What is the connection between the bridge collapsing and Biden?
@@Mike-Bell Conspiracy theorist.
@@frothslosh No conspiracy! I was checking if the commenter saw conspiracy.
@@frothslosh It I'm sure was a coincidence, but the conspiracy is the total lack of action in closing/ repairing/rebuilding this bridge.
Don't tell me there's no money for it. That's not an excuse, when they can just print it out of thin air, and there was plenty of money for bike lanes..
It NEEDED taken care of and our government knew and did nothing.
State officials stole 4.2 billion from the collected gas tax and “repurposed it” but PA law states the collected gas tax must go to infrastructure repair. There was a full report from state engineers telling these idiot democ 🐀 s what was going to happen to the bridge if it wasnt repaired and the IGNORED it. They should all be locked up!
The Big Guy has to have his 10%. As does everyone else. That is where the money goes.
That corroded cross brace should have immediately triggered a closure. The city didn't even lower the weight limit. It's a shame Harrisburg diverted billions of dollars raised by Pennsylvania's ridiculously high gas taxes which were earmarked for infrastructure to other pet projects. If I ran my company that way I would be in jail.
I lived in PGH all my. Life all our bridges by down town are good. The one that are around the city are fucking terrible lol I t though
The "victims" already planning to sue so expect prices to go up.
I'd imagine they got hurt but I see what you mean. Sometimes these lawsuits are rediculously high.
This bridge was surveyed and corrective action was recommended.
The PA gov't stole funds from infrastructure projects funded by fuel tax. They used the money in "underserved" communities.
poly bridge
It's sad how most people in my area have been calling it an intentional collapse because Joe Biden happened to be nearby to talk about infrastructure.
I agree! It’s so troubling that many gravitate to imagine evil intent. It’s often the people who feel like they get a raw deal in life and the odds are stacked against them. 🤷♂️
1. Most people are ignorant of the facts and should keep their uninformed opinions and “conspiracy theories” to themselves.
2. Unfortunately, facts don’t matter any more, which is why the bridge fell down, and why the planet/human race is/are headed for disaster.
3. The fact is, engineers who inspect bridges have been telling the politicians for years that there are problems that need addressed, but the politicians don’t have the courage to do the right thing because it is expensive and unpopular for their supporters. Reread Items 1 and 2, then spend your time holding the politicians responsible for failing to do their jobs.
Having said the above, old bridges do get maintained and replaced, but in this case, the process and the politicians failed. Let’s fix the processes and political systems that fail.
This is hilarious wait till concrete blocks fall off skyscrapers down town photos from 2011 shows you they haven't had a inspection in years
Contrary to what Biden said at the bridge, the infrastructure bill would not fix this bridge. The ultimate reason fot this bridge failing was the lack of investment in infrastructure since WWII.
You are partly wrong… PA already had the money to fix their decaying bridges… State officials stole 4.2 billion from the collected gas tax and “repurposed it” but PA law states the collected gas tax must go to infrastructure repair. There was a full report from state engineers telling these idiot democ 🐀 s what was going to happen to the bridge if it wasnt repaired and the IGNORED it. They should all be locked up!
Who were the officials or politicians in charge when money was repurposed
@@richardgulan784 i would like to know that too Why isn't someone looking into that? How much money has been diverted for padded pensions & other sweet benefits or stuffing pockets? No one cares- let's not have any accountability. They are now more concerned about the money they can't get their hands on since folks saw something go wrong.
Please stop with the "It could of been me" mentality. When something happens, everyone tries to connect themselves to the disaster..."I was on that bridge 10 days ago!."
It COULD have been you OR me...but it wasn't.