Comments on: Bridge collapses in Mississippi River

By: Baklava

Baklava — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:02:24 +0000

Pawlenty's points. Excerpt:

We had this bridge inspected in 2005 and 2006, and while there were some deficiencies noted, they did not call for closing or replacing the bridge immediately. This is a situation where had the engineers done that, obviously the bridge would have been closed. But that's not the case. The designation that this bridge has is shared by 80,000 other bridges in the country, and some bridges even have a worse designation.

By: Baklava

Baklava — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:48:35 +0000

Minnesota Democrat Operatives perspectives. Mentally sick people...

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:16:39 +0000

The fact that construction was limiting traffic on the bridge prevented this from being much, much worse. Oridinarily 35W is completely jammed with traffic in all lanes (I believe 3/4 going each way in this particular section).

By: Lorica

Lorica — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:54:10 +0000

This is horrible – Lorica

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:26:42 +0000

This is awful. So far my brother and friends in the Twin Cities are all okay. I used to cross this bridge on a daily basis as it is right next to the U of MN.