In Part 1 of this article, it was noted that there are more than 617,000 bridges in the United States. Of those, more than 46,000 are rated as “structurally deficient.” In Part 2 of FreightWaves Classics: Fix U.S. bridges!, several of the more high-profile bridge collapses are outlined.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge – 1940
The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in 1940. It had been built to span the Tacoma Narrows strait of...
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