Search / 65 posts tagged bridge collapse

Today we crossed the new 35W bridge in Minneapolis for the first time.  It’s been a week since the bridge opened; just over a year since the old one collapsed. I remember the day the bridge collapsed, thinking, “It couldn’t really have happened, could it?” as we so often do when tragedies occur.

(Washington, D.C. : Right Commentary): Today, the markets positively responded around the world to the statements of Secretary Paulson, Chairman Bernanke, President Bush, and others, that the United States will intervene to provide liquidity in the US financial markets and will help unwind the

You may recall an incident on the news last summer involving a bridge collapse in Minnesota that claimed 13 lives and injured 145 others. State officials were quick to draw up plans for a replacement—but this time they wanted strict safety measures in place to prevent another disaster from occurring in the future.

The new I-35 bridge over the Mississippi River has opened just over one year after the truss span collapsed, killing more than a dozen people and injuring 145. Here's a time lapse video and live camera of the bridge.

Thank god for blogs: now I know why I woke up at 5:30 this morning.  In other Minnesota news, Bob Collins discovers that the job market for non-nurses really sucks. $6.93/hr for working in a packing plant? That’s obscene but the unspoken threat there is very clear: take shit wages or we give your job to an undocumented worker from Guatemala.

Minnesota Bridge Reopens a Year After Collapse By Mike Nizza Traffic on the new Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River on Thursday morning, after a slow procession led by state troopers and state highway trucks marked the opening of the bridge.

Today, the new 35W bridge will open for traffic. It should be a day to recognize the achievement of replacing the vital causeway so rapidly and remembering those who tragically died in the collapse. Not surprisingly, we're going to get far more of the latter: Gov.

There are three teams in the National League that are completely shellshocked and seeing their seasons coming to a crashing end. The Brewers have won only 3 games this month, shocked the baseball world with a bizarre panic move of firing their manager with a dozen games left,

Rattle their cages and vote YES here. Seriously, it’s too your advantage for the markets to freak out. When they’re not freaking out, they’re busy cutting backroom deals that fuck over you and your pension while letting the big money boys skip out of town with your retirement funds.

God Help Jim Oberstar If This Gets Out Rep. Jim Oberstar had better hope that a recent GAO report doesn’t get out. If it does, he could take quite a hit with Minnesota’s taxpayers. Here’s what the Pi-Press is reporting: The Government Accountability Office report, to be discussed at Capitol Hill