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saw that on the news last night, supposedly because it was on the lower portion of the bridge, closer to the water underneath is the reason it was so huge.....at least that's what they were saying
And it's a new bridge. I don't ever remember seeing sink holes on the old one.
I don't think that could happen. There has to be a steel deck underneath the roadway...or so I hope...
It can and has happened; a place I used to live a truck (pickup truck, not semi) went through the roadway on an overpass and landed on the highway below. It sounds like this one was on the approach, though, not the deck; the nj.com story says:
"There is a 15-inch drain pipe under the roadway and it separated — it didn’t collapse, it pulled apart," said Tom Feeney, spokesman for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which runs the Parkway and Turnpike. "Then the earth filled the void where the pipe separated and it weakened the road surface above it."
It can and has happened; a place I used to live a truck (pickup truck, not semi) went through the roadway on an overpass and landed on the highway below. It sounds like this one was on the approach, though, not the deck; the nj.com story says:
"There is a 15-inch drain pipe under the roadway and it separated — it didn’t collapse, it pulled apart," said Tom Feeney, spokesman for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which runs the Parkway and Turnpike. "Then the earth filled the void where the pipe separated and it weakened the road surface above it."
You wouldn't have earth on the deck itself.
No, you wouldn't. Ah, thanks, I hadn't read the whole article. This computer is getting old and decrepit, and sometimes when I open newspaper websites, they take forever to load and then when I try to scroll, the whole PC just freezes. I have to shut it off and turn it back on again, and that's what happened this time.
No, you wouldn't. Ah, thanks, I hadn't read the whole article. This computer is getting old and decrepit, and sometimes when I open newspaper websites, they take forever to load and then when I try to scroll, the whole PC just freezes. I have to shut it off and turn it back on again, and that's what happened this time.
NJ.com's website is particularly slow to load and it takes forever to load all the cruddy ads and banners and everything else they force on you. On a better computer and internet connection it sometimes freezes for a minute anyway. They are shooting themselves in the foot with all the bloatware on that site.
NJ.com's website is particularly slow to load and it takes forever to load all the cruddy ads and banners and everything else they force on you. On a better computer and internet connection it sometimes freezes for a minute anyway. They are shooting themselves in the foot with all the bloatware on that site.
I find that with just about any newspaper website. Yes, it's all the ads and banners and whatnot. I don't want to see them. I just want to read the story.
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